The Hubble eXtreme Deep Field (XDF) may have observed a region of sky just 1/32,000,000th of the ...More total, but was able to uncover a whopping 5,500 galaxies within it: an estimated 10% of the ...

Thanks to space telescopes like Hubble and James Webb, astronomers have had a rough estimate of the amount of background visible light in the universe, a metric known as the cosmic optical ...

We finally know just how dark it is in deep space. NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has made the first precise measurements of the ambient light that suffuses the universe, called the cosmic ...

Deep Space. Filling the Void ... Why Is Dark Matter a ... Massive vats of the stuff are tucked deep into boreholes in Earth’s crust to limit background noise like electromagnetic radiation ...

Deep Space The WMAP spacecraft team won a $3 million Breakthrough Prize for mapping the Cosmic Microwave Background and revolutionizing the study of cosmology. By Jay Bennett Published: Dec 04 ...

The puzzling migration of matter in deep space – dubbed "dark flow" – has been observed at farther distances than ever before, scientists have announced.

Magnifying deep space through the 'carousel lens' Date: September 18, 2024 Source: DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Summary: A newly discovered cluster-scale strong gravitational lens ...

Physicists like me don't fully understand what makes up about 83% of the matter of the universe — something we call "dark matter."But with a tank full of xenon buried nearly a mile under South ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured one of the most stunning and rare cosmic sights in astronomy: a nearly perfect Einstein ring, formed by the warped light of a distant galaxy ...

Physicists like me don’t fully understand what makes up about 83% of the matter of the universe — something we call “dark matter.”But with a tank full of xenon buried nearly a mile under ...