When astronomers detected the first long-predicted gravitational waves in 2015, it opened a whole new window into the Universe.

The research suggests that the universe has become “messier and more complicated” over time, with a less clumpy distribution of matter.

Featuring the world’s largest digital camera, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will capture these mysterious phenomena in more ...

Researchers studied how the universe’s structure changed over time. They found that the universe is less clumpy than expected ...

Dark energy is still a mystery, but powerful new telescopes are set to uncover clues. With NASA and ESA leading the charge, ...

Scientists have created over a million simulated cosmic images using the power of supercomputers to anticipate the capabilities of NASA’s upcoming Roman Space Telescope. These synthetic images allow ...

It doesn’t emit or absorb light as ordinary matter does that creates stars, planets, and humans. It can only be deduced from phenomena like galaxy rotation speeds or from light bending around massive ...

New research from Mathew Madhavacheril and Ph.D. candidate Joshua Kim of the University of Pennsylvania and their collaborators has combined cosmological data from two major surveys of the universe’s ...

Across cosmic history, powerful forces have acted on matter, reshaping the universe into an increasingly complex web of ...

In this case, though, multiple layers of gravitational lensing from Abell 370 managed ... gravitational lenses and probe the mysteries of dark matter. At least some of that work will almost ...