North American astronomers often refer to springtime as "galaxy season" because April and May offer glimpses of galaxies ...

Two billion years after the cosmos banged into existence, a mysterious force known as dark energy began shoving space outward ...

The universe has a hidden structure, and a University of Virginia professor is mapping it in 3D, using 46 million galaxies ...

Small, dim, and almost invisible, dwarf spheroidal galaxies are packed to the brim with something we can't see:. They're like ...

Boasting a field of view at least 100 times larger than Hubble's, the telescope will sweep across vast regions of space from ...

The team successfully built the largest, highest-resolution 3D map of the cosmos ever constructed. The completed map charts ...

The largest 3D map of the universe, created based on data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, shows 47 million ...

That light is then fed into spectrographs that split it into its component colors, allowing scientists to calculate how far ...

With the launch of Space Warps, a new citizen science project on the Zooniverse platform, you can now join in the search to find rare and elusive strong gravitational lenses in never-before-seen ...

Cold gas does not look dramatic at first glance. Neither does dust. Yet those two quiet ingredients sit at the center of a ...