Data from dark-energy observatories indicate universe may 'end in a big crunch' at 33 billion years old

The universe is approaching the midpoint of its 33-billion-year lifespan, a Cornell physicist calculates with new data from ...

The Largest Known Things In The Universe, Ranked By Size

The known universe is full of shockingly huge things. Here are the largest planets, stars, galaxies, and structures we've ...

NASA’s Chandra spots fastest-growing black hole in early universe

The black hole, named RACS J0320-35, is about a billion times heavier than the Sun. It lies 12.8 billion light years from ...
University of Massachusetts Lowell

NASA Launches UMass Lowell Telescope that Seeks to Identify New Planets

LOWELL, Massachusetts – NASA on Oct. 1 launched a telescope designed and built by UMass Lowell and the space agency that ...
Los Angeles Times

NASA’s newest space telescope blasts off from Vandenberg to map sky, explore dawn of universe

NASA’s newest space telescope rocketed into orbit Tuesday to map the entire sky like never before — a sweeping look at hundreds of millions of galaxies and their shared cosmic glow since the beginning ...
WTVD

President Biden reveals the Webb Telescope's stunning first image

WASHINGTON -- The first glimpse of how the James Webb Space Telescope will change the way people see the universe has arrived. President Joe Biden released one of Webb's first images Monday at the ...