UChicago-led study analyzes massive galaxy clusters mapped by the Dark Energy Survey, offers new way to probe cosmic laws ...

A powerful new telescope has captured its first glimpse of the cosmos, and could transform our understanding of how stars, ...

A new instrument on the four-metre VISTA telescope at the European Southern Observatory in Chile has recently captured its ...

At the center of our galaxy, there’s a mysterious, diffuse glow given off by gamma rays — powerful radiation usually emitted by high-energy objects such as<a class="excerpt-read-more" href=" More ...

Scientists are attributing the mysterious, diffuse glow at our galaxy's center to dark matter, a phenomenon usually linked ...

The giant elliptical galaxy Messier 87 (M87), in the constellation Virgo, possesses near its center a supermassive black hole ...

The Point Arena Lighthouse rises majestically from its windswept peninsula in Mendocino County, a 115-foot sentinel that’s been guiding mariners safely past treacherous waters since the 1800s while ...