The South Pole Telescope has released its most precise image yet of the universe’s first light—the cosmic microwave background. This new ground-based data confirms cosmic expansion anomalies and ...

Despite decades of searching, scientists still haven’t found the elusive substance that holds galaxies together: dark matter.

We are entering a new era of cosmic exploration. The new Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile will transform astronomy with its ...

In an extraordinary leap forward for astrophysics, astronomers have achieved a momentous breakthrough with the first direct ...

Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-486) and index Between 1920 and 1970, cosmology became a branch of physics. This text examines how the big bang theory drew inspiration from, and ...

What we saw in the DESI experiments, and now strengthened by our South Pole Telescope observations, is that dark energy is ...

Matter in intergalactic space is not randomly scattered - it forms a vast network of filamentary structures that make up the ...

We are entering a new era of cosmic exploration. The new Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile will transform astronomy with its extraordinary ability ...

Powered by the largest digital camera ever built, Rubin Observatory has taken its first images—millions of stars and galaxies ...

These cosmic filaments contain 12 trillion solar masses of 10-million-degree gas, helping solve the "missing matter" mystery.

A new era of cosmic wonder dawns as Vera C. Rubin Observatory receives first celestial images at live reveal on June 23, 2025. Perched atop Cerro Pachón in the Chilean Andes, this observatory has the ...

Funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and U.S. Department of Energy, the observatory will survey the southern sky for the next 10 years.