Scientists don’t know what they’ll find until they find it.
NASA's SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the universe, Epoch of Reionization, and ices Explorer) space telescope ...
A flash of radio waves from a young galaxy 3 billion years after the Big Bang is lighting up 80% of the universe’s history.
Detected by the MeerKAT array, this “fast radio burst” comes from 3 billion years after the Big Bang, and could help map the ...
After being born of mostly just hydrogen and helium, a scant 14-ish billion years later the Universe is full of weird planets of wildly varying makes, shapes, and sizes. Well, maybe not shapes, ...
A star has been detected so far away that its light began traveling when the universe was still in its earliest stages. It shouldn’t be visible — yet somehow, it is. A massive galaxy cluster has bent ...
An undergraduate astrophysics student at UC Berkeley has found three unusual galaxies—cataloged as Shapiro Dwarf Galaxies I, ...
Francis Halzen wins the 2026 award for his work on a neutrino observatory at the South Pole that has helped to unlock ...