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By Lloyd Strickland, Manchester Metropolitan University. Originally published November 11, 2016, in The Conversation. In an ideal world, every extraordinary philosophical question would come with an extraordinary story telling the...

How is matter distributed within our universe? And what is the mysterious substance known as dark energy made of? HIRAX, a new large telescope array comprising hundreds of small radio...

Cosmologists have produced the biggest map yet of the Universe’s structure, and found that matter might be spread more evenly than previously thought. The results, part of the ongoing Dark...

In 29 new scientific papers, the Dark Energy Survey examines the largest-ever maps of galaxy distribution and shapes, extending more than 7 billion light-years across the universe. The extraordinarily precise...

The universe we see is only the very tip of the vast cosmic iceberg. The hundreds of billions of galaxies it contains, each of them home to billions of stars,...

A new map of dark matter in the local universe reveals several previously undiscovered filamentary structures connecting galaxies. The map, developed using machine learning by an international team including a...

A universe evolves over billions upon billions of years, but researchers have developed a way to create a complex simulated universe in less than a day. The technique, published in...

You’re driving down the freeway listening to the radio, but you’re getting static. Enjoy it. That’s the sounds of the universe. You’re driving down the freeway listening to the radio....

The Gaia spacecraft is an impressive feat of engineering. Its primary mission is to map the position and motion of more than a billion stars in our galaxy, creating the...

An international research team analyzed a database of more than 1000 supernova explosions and found that models for the expansion of the Universe best match the data when a new...