As the Vera C. Rubin Observatory surveys the night sky, astrophysicists expect to unlock the secrets of dark matter, dark ...

Gaia, Europe’s Milky Way–mapping spacecraft, shut down earlier this year. It was arguably the most important—and most ...

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The Vera C. Rubin observatory will host a “first look” event at 11 a.m. ET on Monday, June 23. You can watch it live right ...

Despite its abundance, dark matter remains one of the most elusive components in cosmology. Astronomers hope that the Roman ...

Hunting for dark matter, the invisible substance thought to account for 85 percent of all matter in the cosmos, isn't easy.

Researchers, in a recent Physical Review Letters paper, introduce a new mechanism that may finally allow ultralight dark ...

While Bianco will be present in Washington for the historic first-look event, UD is hosting a watch party in Room 101 of ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is releasing its first images on 23 June, showing us galaxies as we’ve never seen them before. Here’s how you can join a party to see those shots in full definition ...

“This will mark the beginning of a new era in astronomy and astrophysics,” the Rubin team announced ahead of the unveiling.

Bright flashes of enigmatic radio waves have helped illuminate some of the missing matter in the universe, astronomers say in ...