On March 11, 2025, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Among other things, it carried with it something that will ...

NASA expects to soon launch a mission to create the most colorful 3D map of the entire sky yet. Known as SPHEREx, it will ...

Explore the universe with Euclid’s 3D galaxy map, the largest synthetic simulation of the universe ever created, and check ...

The European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope, built to capture a 3D map of the universe, just released its first big batch of data. In the less than two years since its launch, the telescope has ...

March 11, 2025 will forever be remembered as the date when one of humanity's most capable space telescopes was launched. The hardware is called SPHEREx, and, among other things, it will be capable of ...

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is mapping millions of celestial objects to better understand dark energy: the mysterious driver of our universe’s accelerating expansion. Today, the ...

Several University of Arizona scientists are taking part in creating the largest ever 3-D map of the universe. Astronomy professor Xiaohui Fan said the map, called the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, will ...

Evolving dark matter may explain cosmic acceleration. Observations support a mixed model. For years, a stubborn puzzle has sat at the center of the standard cosmological model. The evidence clearly ...

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The universe is a big place, and while we're still unraveling the mysteries of the early universe, the James Webb Space Telescope has given us unprecedented looks at the cosmos around our little blue ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered dazzling newborn stars and thick cosmic dust in Sagittarius B2, the Milky Way's ...

The universe doesn’t revolve around Kitt Peak, but the observatory southwest of Tucson is at the center of what could be the biggest breakthrough in the study of the cosmos in decades. Using an ...