The telescope will catalogue billions of new objects and produce a new map of the entire ... is poised to expand our understanding of just about every corner of the universe.

A new effort to map the rumblings in spacetime caused by ... way is essential for understanding the cosmic architecture of our universe. It may even lead us to the ultimate source of the ...

The initial findings offer novel perspectives on the relationship between star formation and the evolution of galaxies.

This is called the “heat death” of the Universe, but you can think of it instead as the death of heat. There will be no more ...

Alien hunters are buzzing after astronomers discovered 85 potential planets outside our solar system that could harbor life.

The findings might help fill a long-standing gap in our understanding of galaxy evolution. "We succeeded in obtaining high-resolution maps of the recombination lines of hydrogen, which indicate ...

Well before Hubble, some people had proposed there might be a universe beyond our galaxy, but the evidence ... Leavitt’s work was used to create rough maps of the Milky Way by finding the ...

Our current understanding of the early universe’s development goes something ... which will attempt to map the 21 cm signal across the entire sky. This array will connect radio antennas in ...

Note that the relationship between north and east on the sky (as seen from below) is flipped relative to direction arrows on a map of the ... explore the universe’s deepest mysteries. Equipped with ...

New measurements show that the expansion rate of the universe is faster than can be explained by our current understanding of ...