Nowadays, the dark of night is interspersed with the light of stars. But before the stars were born, did light shine at the ...

Did light shine in the universe’s earliest moments, or was it hidden from view? While this question may seem simple at first, ...

At the summit of Cerro Pachón, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has started its work.

NASA’s SPHEREx mission is mapping the entire sky in 102 infrared colors, turning raw space data into a public tool for ...

A vast filament of gas stretching across the cosmos may help solve the mystery of the Universe’s missing matter. Astronomers ...

Guided by fast radio bursts, astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics have mapped how ordinary matter is distributed in the ...

Decades ago, astronomers estimated that “ordinary” matter (basically everything that isn’t dark matter or dark energy) makes ...

LOFAR is a massive radio telescope that comprises 100,000 antennas spread across eight European countries. The researchers ...