Scientists have theorized that dark matter clumps exist in staggering numbers, far more than the galaxies we see. Only clumps ...
NASA's SPHEREx telescope unveiled its first full-sky map of the universe, combining more than 100 infrared observations into ...
Nowadays, the dark of night is interspersed with the light of stars. But before the stars were born, did light shine at the beginning of the universe? The short answer is "no." But the long answer ...
On what might have been the proudest day of Jack Burns’s long career in astronomy, he was sitting on a beach. Orbital dynamics and launch schedules wait for no one, and Burns couldn’t move his ...
Astronomers have finally confirmed a long‑suspected cosmic oddity, a massive clump of gas and dark matter that looks like a ...
On March 11, 2025, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Among other things, it carried with it something that will ...