This article, originally titled "The Man Who Discovered the Universe," is from the Summer 2025 issue of Air & Space Quarterly ...

Parallels in the physics of the universe and that of black holes have led some cosmologists to wonder if our universe could have been born in a black hole. Photograph by NASA Goddard Gazing up at the ...

Astronomers are using radio pulses from space to find missing baryonic matter and learn about supermassive black holes, stellar formation and galaxy evolution.

In 1932, a new set of eyes on the universe were opened thanks to an accidental discovery by Karl Jansky. The young engineer from Bell Laboratories in the U.S., was looking for the source of static ...

Using the world’s largest digital camera, Rubin will capture a full view of the southern sky every three days.

On the evening ofOctober 5, 2025, the night sky will offer a captivating sight: Saturn, the ringed giant of our solar system, will appear near the nearly full moon. If you look up around 8 p.m. local ...

A chance configuration of objects arrayed across deep space has just revealed the hiding place of a giant glob of dark matter. Configurations like these, known as Einstein crosses, typically consist ...

Mathematical quirks of our universe have led some cosmologists to wonder whether the cosmos was actually born in a black hole. Parallels in the physics of the universe and that of black holes have led ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. It’s not often someone gets a front-row seat to a history-making event that forever changes our understanding of the universe, but for ...

Gauging the mass of a black hole is tricky, but astronomers have devised multiple methods to measure the heft of these ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...