New observations of the cosmos show that the dark energy, a mysterious force that accelerates the expansion of the universe, ...

"Really, Euclid is not only a dark universe detective, it's also a time machine. We will look back 10 billion years in cosmic ...

The European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope was built to study the dark matter and dark energy that make up […] ...

The great Russian physicist and Nobel laureate Lev Landau once remarked that "cosmologists are often in error, but never in doubt." In studying the history of the universe itself, there is always a ...

Ideally, telescopes have wide fields-of-view (so ... Sometimes, when something massive—say, a galaxy with plenty of dark matter—sits in front of another more distant galaxy, the light from ...

The Large UV/Optical/IR Surveyor (LUVOIR) telescope has been imagined as a habitable planet hunter, but it could be so much ...

Euclid has opened a new window to the cosmos with its first deep sky data release, revealing millions of galaxies, ...

After 11 years mapping the Milky Way, the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope has retired. Scientists hailed it as ...

Data from 41 million galaxies does not shake up the standard cosmological model after all. To that conclusion, to their own ...

Webb Telescope captures an Einstein ring in the Hydrus constellation Light bends around a massive galaxy, forming a glowing ring Gravitational lensing helps study distant galaxies and dark matter ...

Early simulations show that it would take only 10 hours for the forthcoming ELT to find signs of life near Proxima Centauri.

"Our data indicates that the Universe will expand forever, and at an accelerating rate," said Sehgal, who analyzed data ...