For the first time, scientists have used Earth-based telescopes to look back over 13 billion years to see how the first stars in the universe affect light emitted from the Big Bang. Using telescopes ...

Go outside right now. What’s the farthest thing you can see? A tree? A bird? What about the Moon? It’s 250,000 miles away. The Sun is 400 times farther than that, at nearly 100 million miles (but ...

A new study from Tel Aviv University has predicted, for the first time, the groundbreaking results that can be obtained from detecting radio waves coming to us from the early Universe. The findings ...

The black ring and central dot show infrared image of a distant galaxy distorted by a gravitation lens. Orange/reg shows radio waves from the same object. The inset shows a pinch caused by another, ...

Scientists using a global array of radio telescopes have detected the universe’s lowest-mass dark object by observing how it warped light through gravitational lensing. The invisible mass, about a ...

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A NASA team using the Hubble Space Telescope found an object in space never recorded before, nicknamed “Cloud-9.” Cloud-9 is a starless, gas-rich, dark-matter cloud considered a “relic” or remnant of ...

ROCKWOOD, Texas – 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 ...

If you enter Drexel University’s Main Building, take the stairs in the Great Court to the third floor, walk towards Curtis Hall (go past the A.J. Drexel Picture Gallery on your right), follow a long ...

Astronomers have discovered a surprisingly lopsided disk surrounding the mysterious nearby star Beta Canis Minoris, thanks to a brand new "photonic lantern" device that could vastly improve the ...