The most distant galaxies in this deep field image from the James Webb Space Telescope appear as small, faint dots—and are receding from us faster than the speed of light due to cosmic expansion. If ...

Light is the fastest phenomenon in the universe, clocking in at just under 300,000 kilometers per second. The telescopes that observe that light, from radio waves to gamma rays, are built at rather ...

Craig Kauffman, "Untitled" (1969), acrylic and lacquer on plastic, from "Primary Atmostpheres" at David Zwirner in 2009 (via .com/thefuturistics) Earlier this week I ...

In a groundbreaking new study, researchers from the University of Rostock and the University of Birmingham have made a surprising discovery that challenges the long-held understanding of time and ...

My telescope, set up for astrophotography in my light-polluted San Diego backyard, was pointed at a galaxy unfathomably far from Earth. My wife, Cristina, walked up just as the first space photo ...

You know that scene in the film Contact where the “Machine” is spooling up, its three spinning rings kicking out crazy light and an electromagnetic field powerful enough to pitch nearby Navy ...

Citizen scientists discover the farthest and most powerful Odd Radio Circle, composed of two giant intersecting rings of radio light. Credit: RAD@home Astronomy Collaboratory (India) illustration The ...

"There is a growing chasm between theory and observation related to the early universe, which presents compelling questions ...

The Albuquerque Museum’s “Light, Space, and the Shape of Time,” takes an art movement associated with the clean lines and shiny surfaces of postwar Los Angeles architecture and turns it inside-out, ...