In a preview of observations that will be made routinely by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, astronomers found evidence ...

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope is set to embark on a deep-sky survey that could capture nearly 100,000 cosmic explosions, ...

A million-light-year bridge of stars links merging galaxies in Abell 3667. This optical evidence confirms a cosmic collision.

Supernovas, kilonovas, gamma-ray bursts... oh my! The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will uncover 100,000 of these ...

It took about 50 exploding stars to upend cosmology. Researchers mapped and measured light from Type Ia supernovae, the dramatic explosion of a particular kind of white dwarf. In 1998, they announced ...

Galaxy clusters are among the largest structures in our universe, consisting of hundreds or thousands of galaxies that have ...

Brookhaven National Laboratory has completed the "major item of equipment" phase for the Lunar Surface Electromagnetics ...

A catalog of over 2,000 exploding white dwarf vampire stars, the largest ever gathered, has provided further evidence that ...

The Dark Energy Camera is ground-based instrument located at the Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope in Chile and was originally built to observe many galaxies as part of a project called the Dark ...

NASA's Roman Space Telescope is preparing for launch in 2027, with a mission to study distant galaxies and explore dark energy.

New results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) suggest that the unknown force accelerating the expansion of the universe isn't what we believed it to be. This hints that our best ...

He's a member of the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX), is studying dark energy from an earlier time in the universe's existence than DESI. HETDEX is also focused on sound ...