The University of Texas at Austin was the top recipient of National Science Foundation grants in fiscal year 2024 – a sign of ...

Astronomers use the term dark energy to refer to energy in the universe that is unaccounted for by ordinary matter but ...

Scientists analyzed more than 100 million image cutouts from the Hubble Space Telescope archives, finding hundreds of ...

Published in Nature Astronomy, the new map uses fresh observations by the James Webb Space Telescope, aimed at a well-studied ...

Using a brand new data analysis tool, astronomers identified more than 800 strange and previously undocumented space objects.

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Using deep James Webb observations of the COSMOS field, astronomers have created the most detailed dark matter map to date, tracing how invisible matter shapes galaxy clusters and drives the formation ...

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A new high-resolution map of distant galaxies may help scientists understand a mysterious invisible substance that helps hold ...