A group of astronomers has uncovered a rare celestial configuration that’s rewriting what we know about how dark matter shapes the universe. Hidden inside a cosmic mirage known as an Einstein Cross, ...

A team of astronomers has attempted to track the path of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS back into the past, tracing its path through the galaxy in simulations involving over 13 million stars.

According to the equations that govern black holes, the larger one of these cosmic behemoths is the lower its average density – given that the universe contains a lot of relatively empty space, could ...

On October 6 1995, at a scientific meeting in Florence, Italy, two Swiss astronomers made an announcement that would transform our understanding of the universe beyond our solar system. Michel Mayor ...

Surya is the first foundation model for heliophysics, built by a team of heliophysicists and machine learning experts. It learns from solar images, magnetic field data, and velocity measurements to ...

University of Michigan researchers have developed a tool powered by artificial intelligence that can help them examine the behavior of a single molecule out of a sea of information in the blink of an ...

Sometimes, the simplest explanation is the best one," Professor Gupta said. "Maybe the universe’s biggest secrets are just tricks played by the evolving constants of nature." ...

Stuart Jefferies’ first time through the looking glass? He huddled with a friend at the bottom of Haleakala Crater in Hawaii. Camping. Late 1980s. “My friend had brought his eight-inch telescope with ...

This article, originally titled "The Man Who Discovered the Universe," is from the Summer 2025 issue of Air & Space Quarterly, the National Air and Space Museum's signature magazine that explores ...

This article explores how our understanding of the universe has evolved—from the scale of everyday experience down to the Planck length ...

These upcoming space exploration games are all inspired by No Man's Sky to some degree, offering vast galaxies and mysterious planets to explore.