The first batch of data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument is now available for researchers to explore. Taken during the experiment's 'survey validation' phase, the data include distant ...

A team of astronomers have found a mysterious object in the distant universe that could be dark matter or an inactive smaller ...

Physicists have been puzzling over conflicting observational results pertaining to the accelerating expansion rate of our Universe—a major discovery recognized by the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics. New ...

In a groundbreaking study published inNature Astronomy, astronomers have identified the lowest-mass dark object ever ...

IDC has just released estimates that this year, the Digital Universe — meaning every electronically stored piece of data or file out there — will reach 1.2 million petabytes, or 1.2 zettabytes, this ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Jeffrey Cooke, Professor, Centre for Astrophysics and ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. At first, there was nothing — complete and utter emptiness. Zero energy and zero matter. And then ...

"Together, all data indicate that while 3I/ATLAS follows a thin-disk orbit in the solar neighborhood, it may nonetheless be ...

Space scientists have discovered a 'super Jupiter' orbiting a white dwarf, detected using direct observations with the European Space Agency (ESA)'s Gaia mission. Space scientists have recently ...

As is the way with IT, as soon as one bandwagon begins to be understood by the general public, another one has to be rolled out. In this case, as cloud computing starts to become more of a reality, ...