At Utah State University, researchers are using a radical idea known as the holographic principle to bridge the gap. By ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have discovered 1,678 ancient galaxy groups, offering new insight into the ...

One of the longest-standing mysteries about Mars has been the presence of dark and light streaks on the rolling hills surrounding Olympus Mons. This week's image, from the European Space Agency, shows ...

full-sky map of the universe. Launched in early March after some delay, the space observatory is now snapping 3,600 infrared images per day, collecting light at wavelengths that humans can’t see ...

Contrary to the map many of us have in our minds, almost all of South America is farther east than North America. Most of us have a rough map of the world in our minds that we use any time we ...

This has now been announced by the research team responsible for the largest three-dimensional map of the universe. The data collected in the first year after the Dark Energy Spectroscopic ...

A telescope in Chile has spent years working on by far the most precise map of the earliest visible universe. It now reveals a lot about the cosmos. An international research group has created the ...

In just a third of the time of other experiments, we’ve found a signal that hints at a more active universe than anticipated. We have also been able to map the cosmic architecture left behind by ...

But in April, the documented galactic census exploded to six million, thanks to the biggest-ever 3D map of the universe, produced by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), an experiment ...

The European Space Agency has unveiled the first piece of its incredibly detailed map of the Universe - showcasing millions of stars and galaxies. The portion of the map, which is a huge mosaic of ...

And we are trying to map a lot of things in the universe. Some to keep our planet safe, some to understand our galaxy and its formation, and some to answer the most profound questions of cosmology.

Subscribers can see a larger version of this map at the bottom of the page ... However tangled the question of our metaphorical place in the universe, we can use astronomy to grasp Earth ...