Science catalogue
Cosmology and astrophysics study the universe as a whole: how it began, what it is made of and how it may end. These explainers cover black holes, dark energy, the cosmic microwave background and gravitational waves, and they follow new results from the Webb telescope and other observatories as they are published.
Webb’s First Deep Field, SMACS 0723. NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI. Public domain.
Ordered routes through the archive. Read each one from top to bottom; it fills itself as new articles are tagged.
The ideas everything else rests on.
5 articles, 28 min in all
Results that moved the field from argument to measurement.
5 articles, 26 min in all
Where current theory runs out.
4 articles, 19 min in all
Newest in Cosmology & Astrophysics
The moon illusion makes a rising Moon look enormous.
7 min read
Read the articlePrimordial black hole hunters have a new candidate, S251112cm, but its 1-in-4-year false alarm rate is barely better than a coin flip.
7 min read
Plutonium-238 shortage, not budget, is why NASA's Uranus Orbiter may slip past its 2032 launch window into the 2030s.
6 min read
Webb's latest data on interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS reveals a 12-billion-year-old cosmic visitor carrying deuterium 30 times higher than any solar system comet, and chemistry…
5 min read
Every topic tagged in this section. Each concept opens its own reading list.
17 articles, newest first
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