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

The universe is approaching the midpoint of its 33-billion-year lifespan, a Cornell physicist calculates with new data from ...

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 ...

Using a global network of telescopes, astronomers have detected the lowest-mass dark object yet found in the universe.

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 ...

The first stars in the universe formed out of pristine hydrogen and helium clouds, in the first few hundred million years ...

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 ...

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. At ...