Featuring the world’s largest digital camera, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will capture these mysterious phenomena in more ...

"The large volume of data from Rubin will give us a sample of all kinds of Type Ia supernovas at a range of distances and in ...

New research suggests that dark energy isn't needed to explain the acceleration in the expansion of the universe — instead ...

Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies At the dawn of the 20th century, astronomers faced a ...

Astronomers have identified a quasar that may help explain how the universe’s “dark ages” finally ended. Astronomers have ...

That bent light keeps traveling through the snowflake. Some of the light will hit different parts of the snowflake and bounce ...

Scientists found a free-living coral species actively travels toward blue light resembling its natural habitat and moves like a jellyfish to migrate.

A paradox at the heart of quantum physics has been tested in an extraordinary fashion, pushing the boundaries of human ...

In the 1920s, astronomers thought that the Milky Way was the entire universe. Hubble's discovery revealed a much bigger ...

Detecting dark matter, the elusive type of matter predicted to account for most of the universe's mass, has so far proved to ...

A Yale-led team of astronomers has detected an intensely brightening and dimming quasar that may help explain how some objects in the early universe ... up to a million light years away from ...