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, ...

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 ...

Our journey toward understanding the nature of our universe began thousands of years ago and had its roots in religion and philosophy. Around 2,300 years ago, careful observers in the Mediterranean ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists have many big questions to tackle about the universe, including how big it actually is. But even the proposed answers aren't straightforward.

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 ...

Professors in acting and in illustration fields search for students who are willing to take risks and express their creativity through artistic forms. Determining who will be in these programs is no ...