Today’s observatories document every pulse and flash in the sky each night. To understand how the cosmos has changed over longer periods, scientists rely on a more tactile technology.

Astronomers used James Webb Space Telescope data to determine the density of the universe's most mysterious "stuff." ...

Findings allow scientists to learn more about dark matter’s influence on stars, galaxies, and planets ...

How do the characteristics of Neptune-like exoplanets, also known as exo-Neptunes, differ from each other? This is what a recent study published in Astronomy and Astrophysics hopes to address as an ...

A Rocket Lab Electron launched the first satellites for a new Open Cosmos constellation that will use spectrum previously assigned to Rivada.

Cosmic web Created using data from the JWST, this map shows how dark matter acts as the hidden framework on which visible ...

Astronomers have produced the most detailed map yet of dark matter, revealing the invisible framework that shaped the Universe long before stars and galaxies formed. Using powerful new observations ...

Cosmos 482, the exploratory spacecraft launched toward Venus by the Soviet Union in March 1972, has finally ended its mission. The 50-year-old lander probe returned to Earth early Saturday, May 10, ...

When the National Science Foundation announced a competition to fund institutes in astronomy and AI in the summer of 2023, physics and astronomy Prof. Vicky Kalogera brought together a team of ...

A Russian satellite named Cosmos 2553 is showing signs that it may no longer be working properly. Launched just weeks before the Ukraine conflict began in 2022, this satellite was sent into a ...