Harvard physics professor and author John E. Huth discussed his new book, “A Sense of Space,” which explores the interaction ...

Archaeologists often seek to understand ancient cultures by studying images left behind on rock faces. While these images ...

Where is the center of the universe? Learn why researchers say the rules may not apply to the center of the universe.

The surface of Earth is finite. We can measure it. If it was expanding, then its size would grow with time. And once again, ...

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope suggest that a new feature in the universe—not a flaw in telescope measurements—may be behind the decadelong mystery of why the universe is ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. About a century ago, scientists were struggling to ...

Jon Lomberg’s most far-flung work of art is currently more than 14.8 billion miles away, in the cold no-man’s land between the sun and its closest stars. Erosion in space occurs slowly, so the ...

University of Chicago astronomer Wendy Freedman tells us how she's searching for an answer to the Hubble tension — a discrepancy between measurements of our universe's expansion that could threaten ...

Hubble sees what we see — visible light — with a little ultraviolet and infrared thrown in. Webb has infrared vision, allowing it to pierce cosmic clouds of dust. The shorter visible and ultraviolet ...