Two new studies have measured the expansion of the universe in our immediate cosmic neighborhood using a novel method that ...

The magnum opus of particle physics is far from complete, requiring physicists to devise many alternatives—some weirder than ...

Scientists believe that about 85% of the universe’s matter is invisible, existing as mysterious particles known as dark matter. To search for these particles, researchers have built highly sensitive ...

Dragonfly FRO, LLC, a Focused Research Organization (FRO), today announced the construction of MOTHRA, a next-generation telescope designed to reveal the cosmic web — the vast network of gas and dark ...

Construction has begun on a new telescope designed to map one of the universe’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MOTHRA observing at night. Each mount is equipped with a wide area web cam. Besides the mount in the foreground two others are ...

New 3D map of the early universe from HETDEX reveals faint hydrogen light linking galaxies 9 to 11 billion years ago.

In an extraordinary revelation that reshapes our understanding of the Universe, astronomers have uncovered a colossal cosmic structure that had long remained veiled behind the dust and stars of our ...

Two new studies have measured the expansion of the Universe in our immediate cosmic neighborhood using a novel method that analyzes the motion of two nearby galaxy groups within their surrounding ...

Astronomers from the University of Groningen have discovered that the Milky Way does not move in the cosmic void, but is embedded in a flat "sheet" of dark matter. This was reported on March 11 in the ...

Billionaire Alex Gerko is funding the development of a telescope that aims to unravel the mysteries of the universe. The British founder of trading group XTX Markets is funding the creation of the ...

MOTHRA has the equivalent light-gathering power of a single telescope 4.7 metres across, but its off-the-shelf optics makes it less costly. The data captured by all those lenses can be combined into a ...