Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence,” Carl Sagan once warned a maxim now resonating through telescopes worldwide as astronomers grapple with a mind-bending new discovery. The James ...

These are exciting times to explore the largest unanswered questions in physics thanks to high-tech experiments and very ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has potentially identified 300 ancient objects, possibly early galaxies formed shortly ...

DESI early data release holds nearly two million objects Date: June 13, 2023 Source: DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Summary: The first batch of data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic ...

The universe is a happening place—full of exploding stars, erupting black holes, zipping asteroids, and much more. The Rubin Observatory released its first images last week, and they’re ...

Latest James Webb data hints at new physics in Universe’s expansion These latest findings further support the Hubble Space Telescope's prior expansion rate measurements.

We often think of astronomy as a visual science with beautiful images of the universe. However, astronomers use a wide range of analysis tools beyond images to understand nature at a deeper level.

It's hard to grasp the sheer amount of astronomical data that came online this week in a 1.6-petabyte data-dump from a Hawaiian telescope, but picture 30,000 Wikipedias or 15 Libraries of Congress.