The world's most powerful telescopes, including the James Webb Space Telescope and FAST, are revolutionizing our ...

Today, scientists are able to observe an exoplanet orbiting its star, an individual galaxy and even the entire universe. "The universe is actually mostly empty space," says Jean-Paul Kneib, a ...

In just over 10 hours of test observations, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory captured millions of celestial objects, opening the ...

One of the first images released by the Rubin Observatory reveals a universe teeming with stars and galaxies.. In an image the observatory refers to as "the cosmic treasure chest," a southern ...

Earth and our entire Milky Way galaxy may sit inside a mysterious giant hole which makes the cosmos expand faster here than ...

Presentations typically run from 8:45 to 10 or 11 pm, including telescope observing. Here’s the schedule for Summer 2024: Visit the U of M website for more information.

Observing the radio sky can give astronomers insights into the large-scale structure of the universe, as radio emissions from far off galaxies can travel through space on relatively uninterrupted ...

World's largest digital camera observes cosmos, capturing detailed images of galaxies, asteroids, and stars changing ...

Scientists have discovered the most powerful blasts of energy in the known universe. Dubbed extreme nuclear transients, or ENTs, the cosmic explosions are unprecedented in their intensity.

"To fully understand the evolution of our universe we need to observe the sky in both optical and longer wavelength infrared light." Stacking 141 images on top of each other, ...

This idea has been formulated a couple different ways over the years. Weak AP asserts that because humans are observing the universe, it must have evolved to support the emergence of intelligent life.

Using facilities like the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland, scientists have probed the universe down to really small scales. So far, they’ve been able to observe the universe down to about ...