The latest generation of astronomy algorithms is not just cataloguing stars and galaxies, it is learning the hidden rules ...

The 1998 discovery that the universe is expanding at an accelerated rate raised new and profound questions about the nature and fate of the universe. Based on measurements of the speed of distant ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A team of astronomers have put together the largest, most detailed map of the universe ever created – and you can explore it now.

Scientists have unveiled the largest map of the universe ever created. Stretching across a tiny sliver of space and almost all cosmic time, it includes almost 800,000 galaxies imaged across the ...

Six years of Dark Energy Survey observations combine four cosmological probes to refine measurements of cosmic expansion, dark energy behavior, and matter clustering across billions of years.

WASHINGTON -- The first glimpse of how the James Webb Space Telescope will change the way people see the universe has arrived. President Joe Biden released one of Webb's first images Monday at the ...

The birth, growth and future of our universe are eternally fascinating. In the last decades, telescopes have been able to observe the skies with unprecedented precision and sensitivity. Our research ...

It appears that we live on the knife-edge, where only the narrowest combination of values for the fundamental constants allow life, and especially conscious life, to arise. When you purchase through ...