Computer algorithms can model the universe, matching simulations to observations and revealing the distribution of dark ...

utilizes powerful computer algorithms that are able to compare the relative positions of galaxies in a 3D map of the universe with detailed simulations that depict the growth and behavior of ...

Is the universe flat and infinite, or something more complex? We can’t say for sure, but a new search strategy is mapping out ...

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

The Gaia mission, launched by the European Space Agency, has completed a decade of groundbreaking astronomical observations, collecting over three trillion data points on two billion stars and ...

The building blocks of life could have been delivered to Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt.

A "cosmic CT scan" performed by scientists using two very different cosmic surveys has revealed the cosmos is less clumpy and ...

Enrico Chesta, Véronique Ferlet-Cavrois and Markus Brugger highlight seven ways CERN and ESA are working together to further ...

Astronomers aimed the Very Large Telescope in Chile at a nearby exoplanet and discovered jet stream winds blowing nearly 80 ...

According to NASA's SPHEREx mission details, the observatory will survey the entire sky using near-infrared light. Its goals include exploring how galaxies evolved, understanding the structure of the ...