A telescope tasked with making the largest-ever map of the universe has confirmed a harsh, if unsurprising, truth: Nothing lasts forever — not cold November rain, or even the cosmos itself. Using a ...

Detected through its globular clusters, the galaxy contains just six million suns’ worth of starlight and is composed of ...

New research suggests that three space telescopes could form a powerful triad capable of searching for supermassive black holes earlier in the history of the cosmos than ever detected before. If the ...

But new research has found the strongest candidate yet. The first author is Dayi (David) Li, a post-doctoral fellow in ...

What: New analyses using early observations from the European Space Agency’s Euclid mission examine how galaxy mergers ...

Euclid uses a method called 'step-and-stare to scan the night sky, which allows it to combine a bunch of separate measurements to form a larger image. Ultimately, scientists believe this will yield ...

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered what seems to be a galaxy that is the most heavily dominated by dark matter ever seen.

Euclid's view of the Horsehead Nebula (all images courtesy ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre (CEA Paris-Saclay), G. Anselmi, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO) This first ...

Although dark matter and dark energy comprise about 95 percent of the universe, their nature remains unknown. But three Princeton astrophysicists and a graduate alumnus will seek to advance human ...