This artist's concept shows how the universe might have looked when it was less than a billion years old, about 7 percent of its current age. Star formation voraciously consumed primordial hydrogen, ...

Two weeks before a competition, Jennifer Eichelberger flipped through a catalog of student illustrations. As she saw the caliber of work being produced, she immediately thought, “If I want to be ...

Researchers have discovered a large, orderly spiral galaxy that formed soon after the Big Bang, when space was only about 1.5 ...

Gravitational waves from inflation generate a faint but distinctive twisting pattern in the polarization of the cosmic microwave background, known as a "curl" or B-mode pattern. For the density ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the physics of nothing, everything, and the stuff in between. Illustration of the expansion of the Universe. The Cosmos ...

These galaxies were imaged by Spitzer during long-duration observations as part of the GREATS survey, short for GOODS Re-ionization Era wide-Area Treasury from Spitzer. (Image credit: P. Oesch & S. De ...

Artist Caitlin Russell’s “The Outer Sun” series pairs her carefully composed works with descriptions of theories of the universe, present and past, believable and absurd. For the above image, the ...

The universe is so vast it's almost impossible to picture what it might look like crammed into one field of view. But musician Pablo Carlos Budassi managed to do it by combining logarithmic maps of ...

Since it began sending data back to Earth in 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has greatly impacted astronomy, and one of its most revolutionary achievements is the observation of some of ...

From the largest cosmic scales down to the smallest subatomic ones, the same laws of physics define the entire Universe. The building blocks from which life arose on Earth weren't something that the ...

Robert Barrett, a professor of illustration, speaks at the BYU devotional on May 8, 2018 in the De Jong Concert Hall. Robert Barrett, a professor of illustration in the Department of Design, discussed ...

Fangirls interested in everything from cosplay to technology can channel their creative side and celebrate their interests in a brand new way with the latest release ...