Even the best telescopes can’t see exoplanets. It’s all about watching for jiggly stars, blue shifts, and transits.
New measurements using gravitational lensing suggest the universe’s current expansion rate does not agree with signals from ...
For much of the twentieth century, scientists expected the expanding universe to slow over time. The opposite turned out to ...
Black holes are notoriously difficult to spot unless they are active, and one type of activity is the destruction of a star, ...
The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are irregular dwarf galaxies and satellites of the Milky Way. The LMC is about 163,000 ...
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has released detailed plans for a major survey that will reveal our home galaxy ...
A quote of the day is a short, thoughtful line chosen to inspire, guide, or challenge people as they move through daily life. It can shift perspective, spark curiosity, or offer comfort in just a few ...
By studying faint distortions in galaxy shapes across a vast region of sky, scientists probed the hidden structure of the universe. In the standard picture of the universe, nearly everything is hidden ...
Authorities have released new images of a person of interest in the deadly shooting that happened at Brown University on ...