A new map of the cosmos, including more than 47 million galaxies and other cosmic objects, represents one of the most ...

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument has completed its five-year mission to build the most comprehensive 3D map of the ...

Today scientists rely on two methods. The first is late-universe observation (or observation of the universe as we see it ...

We all know that everything kicked off when the Big Bang exploded our universe into reality, right? Well, not necessarily. A ...

Researchers hail the achievement as a major milestone in cosmology, with the data now available for global scientific ...

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has completed its originally planned five-year mission and mapped more than ...

Using a new framework, astronomers arrived at the most precise measurement of our universe’s expansion rate—but things still ...

Black holes are mysterious objects, and one theory posits that our universe exists inside of one. It sounds strange, but ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A new paper adjusts an equation that defines our universe in response to recent new data. The cosmological constant, which describes how our universe ...

The star is the most chemically pristine star ever seen, with barely any heavy elements.

There may not be as nearly as many small galaxies in the early universe as astronomers predict there should be, which has big implications for the story of how our universe grew up. When you purchase ...