The 4-metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope (4MOST) facility, installed on the VISTA telescope at the European Southern ...

During the day, this patch of land in sparsely populated central Texas is not remarkable. Eleven buildings, nearly identical, look like bland, oversize backyard sheds. Several large recreational ...

The Universe might not exist forever. New observations by physicists indicate that it will one day reach its maximum size ...

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery with the identification of the most powerful and distant “odd radio circle” ...

The universe is truly magical: vast, mysterious, and endlessly fascinating. There’s something almost unreal about being able ...

We previously covered such “gravity telescopes” with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and the Kamioka Gravitational Wave Detector (KAGRA). These early 2 nd generation of ...

MetaGraph compresses vast data archives into a search engine for scientists, opening up new frontiers of biological discovery ...

Astronomers have detected one of the darkest objects ever seen at a record cosmic distance—only with the assistance of ...

In 2000 TIME’s editors sat down to select three inventions of the year, one each in consumer technology, medical science, and ...

The universe is approaching the midpoint of its 33-billion-year lifespan, a Cornell physicist calculates with new data from dark-energy observatories. After expanding to its peak size about 11 billion ...

Just decades after the first exoplanets were identified, our database of the distant worlds—monitored by the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute—has breached a new threshold. Now, astronomers have ...