Astronomers are making significant strides in detecting an ancient signal from one of the universe’s most unexplored periods.

Astronomers have discovered a vast and enigmatic bridge of gas stretching across 185,000 light-years, connecting two distant ...

Using a novel imaging technique on a ground-based telescope, astronomers captured the sharpest view of a star's disk, ...

Using a global network of telescopes, astronomers have detected the lowest-mass dark object yet found in the universe.

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

For the past decade, gravitational wave astronomy has opened our eyes to amazing cosmic phenomena thanks to LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory. Bob McDonald celebrates LIGO ...

A faint radio "whisper" from ancient hydrogen reveals the universe was heating up long before it filled with starlight.

Our Universe was 'pre-heated' in its early moments, according to a new study from the International Centre of Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), challenging assumptions it emerged from an ultracold ...

AI improves the precision of cosmological parameter measurements. This AI method is significantly more cost-effective than traditional approaches. The AI analyzes both large and small-scale galaxy ...

After a century of observations spanning the breadth of the cosmos and theoretical insights that push humanity's vision of the universe to its utmost limits, we can finally, confidently say that the ...

Calculating the total mass of the universe is not simple, because most of the mass is invisible. In a pie chart of the contents of the universe, only 5 percent is normal matter, atoms that make up all ...

Vogelsberger grew up in Germany, and received his undergraduate degree in physics from the University of Mainz and his PhD from the University of Munich and the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics ...