Voluminous clouds of cosmic dust permeate our galaxy, but only recently has software allowed detailed observations of the ...

Gravitational lensing often evokes images of a cosmic funhouse mirror: duplicated galaxies, dramatic arcs and distorted ...

Previous efforts to map the galaxy's dust were challenged by limited data, but the Gaia mission has provided a treasure trove ...

The finest ever map of the cosmic microwave background - the faint evidence of the universe's early form - has yielded ...

A project to map galaxies across the universe may have spied cracks in the foundation of our understanding of the cosmos.

Nasa launched the $488 million Spherex space telescope on Tuesday to map the entire sky and understand galaxy formation and ...

Astronomers have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million spectra from ESA's Gaia mission, results ...

Astronomers are ready to search for the fingerprints of life in faraway planetary atmospheres. But first, they need to know where to look — and that means figuring out which planets are likely to have ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has unveiled an awe-inspiring celestial spectacle of a spiral galaxy interacting with a ...

New results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) suggest that the unknown force accelerating the expansion of ...

While Bousso sleeps soundly, the unblinking robotic eyes on Kitt Peak will continue to stare out across the universe and into the past, catching photons for a third (and final) cosmic map. This one ...