A more accurate measurement of standard candles has thrown a wrench into our standard model of cosmology.
With the arrival of two special lenses, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is on its way to exploring the…
I'm losing mine, but the Solar System may be way hairier than we ever thought, with thick crops of filamentary dark matter…
Oops! In a happy accident, Comet Lovejoy just happened to be in the field of view of the 570-megapixel Dark…
Cosmologists are intellectual time travelers. Looking back over billions of years, these scientists are able to trace the evolution of…
Sometimes when you stare at something long enough, you begin to see things. This is not the case with optical…
Imagine a single mission that would allow you to explore the Milky Way and beyond, investigating cosmic chemistry, hunting planets, mapping galactic…
The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation is one of the greatest discoveries of modern cosmology. Astrophysicist George Smoot once likened…
Since the early 20th century, scientists and physicists have been burdened with explaining how and why the Universe appears to…
It's well past the Fourth of July, but you can still easily find fireworks in the sky if you look…