The latest generation of astronomy algorithms is not just cataloguing stars and galaxies, it is learning the hidden rules ...

Six years of Dark Energy Survey observations combine four cosmological probes to refine measurements of cosmic expansion, dark energy behavior, and matter clustering across billions of years.

The 1998 discovery that the universe is expanding at an accelerated rate raised new and profound questions about the nature and fate of the universe. Based on measurements of the speed of distant ...

The interactive online map, created using data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, details some 800,000 galaxies across a vast cosmic distance. Scrolling and zooming in can take users some 13.5 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a few billion years, the Milky Way and Andromeda, the nearest spiral galaxy, might collide. Future observers could be treated ...

The Big Bang is often described as the explosive birth of the universe – a singular moment when space, time and matter sprang into existence. But what if this was not the beginning at all? What if ...

Astronomers have peered back in time to find what looks like a population of 'hidden' galaxies that could hold the key to unlocking some of the universe's secrets. If their existence is confirmed it ...

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) in Chile has released its final batch of data after 15 years — and it proves that the Hubble tension, a rift in our understanding of the universe, is very real.

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...