Gravity pulls us to earth, a lesson you learn viscerally the first time you fall. Isaac Newton described gravity as a ...

First discovered in the 1990s, dark energy has come to feel like a familiar face of the cosmos. Astronomers first imagined ...

Astronomers have long struggled with a troubling puzzle: a significant portion of normal matter in the universe appeared to ...

The CMZ spans almost 700 light years and contains some of the most dense molecular gas in the galaxy. Over the years, ...

Last month, a press release announced groundbreaking findings from the Dark Energy Spectroscopy Instrument (DESI), which is installed on the Mayall Telescope in Arizona. This vast survey, containing ...

Leading this quest is the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), a global collaboration involving over 70 institutions.

Astronomers have long been puzzled by two strange phenomena at the heart of our galaxy. First, the gas in the central ...

The halo is more extended that astronomers originally thought, and contains enough hydrogen gas to resolve the problem of the ...

Last month, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI ... Rubin Observatory will hopefully either confirm these string theory findings or set physicists down a different path toward finding ...

The research team found that the statistical significance of the dynamical dark energy model has reached a 4.3σ confidence ...

China's National Astronomical Observatories holds a press conference for a major scientific breakthrough in the study of dark ...