Scientists use 3D galaxy maps to uncover hidden details about dark matter and the universe’s large-scale structure.
According to NASA's SPHEREx mission details, the observatory will survey the entire sky using near-infrared light. Its goals include exploring how galaxies evolved, understanding the structure of the ...
Rare ultra-faint dwarf galaxies beyond the influence of other galaxies show evidence that star formation was stifled long ago ...
Using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), astronomers from the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) and elsewhere have ...
Scientists are revolutionizing our understanding of the universe’s most mysterious component: dark matter, the invisible ...
Computer algorithms can model the universe, matching simulations to observations and revealing the distribution of dark ...
Is the universe flat and infinite, or something more complex? We can’t say for sure, but a new search strategy is mapping out ...
ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.