"These results from the Dark Energy Survey shine new light on our understanding of the universe and its expansion." ...

An international collaboration of scientists from Durham University in the UK, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and École ...

The sharpest dark matter map ever reveals the invisible cosmic scaffolding that built galaxies, stars, and ultimately life itself.

Astronomers may have finally cracked one of the universe’s biggest mysteries: how black holes grew so enormous so fast after ...

If the universe is packed with trillions of stars and galaxies, the night sky should be glowing like the surface of the Sun. But it isn’t, and that simple fact created one of the greatest puzzles in ...

Findings allow scientists to learn more about dark matter’s influence on stars, galaxies, and planets ...

Astronomers have confirmed the earliest barred spiral galaxy in the universe, a Milky-Way-like structure that existed just 2 ...

Filippenko will discuss the discovery that the expansion of the universe is speeding up over time, a finding that led to the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics. He will also discuss the Hubble tension, with ...

This new map is not only the most detailed view of the universe’s invisible scaffolding to date, it also allows astronomers to look deeper into cosmic history.

While the James Webb Space Telescope provides a window into the ancient universe, SkyMapper focuses on the present by ...

Helping young people tap into their excitement about the night sky helps them build confidence and opens career pathways they may not have considered before.

Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists have created one of the most detailed high-resolution maps of dark matter ever produced, revealing how this invisible, ghostly ...