The first batch of data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument is now available for researchers to explore. Taken during the experiment's 'survey validation' phase, the data include distant ...

Bang! Whiz! Pop! The universe is a happening place—full of exploding stars, erupting black holes, zipping asteroids, and much more. And astronomers have a brand-new, superpowerful eye with which to ...

The rate of finding these distant worlds has recently increased, with astronomers scrambling to accommodate the data ...

The nearly 30-year-old Hubble Space telescope continues to deliver outstanding data to astronomers. Now, NASA says that data Hubble has been gathering over the years could challenge what we thought we ...

See the iconic Pillars of Creation in this 3D visualization created from James Webb and Hubble Space Telescope data. Credits ...

We have bad news for any cosmologists out there: you have a lot of work ahead of you. There's long been a discrepancy between the calculated, theoretical rate at which the universe ought to be ...

IDC has just released estimates that this year, the Digital Universe — meaning every electronically stored piece of data or file out there — will reach 1.2 million petabytes, or 1.2 zettabytes, this ...

The telescope aims to eventually chart one-third of the sky during its mission, capturing galaxies and stars. Scientists hope it will also shed light on the role of ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Jeffrey Cooke, Professor, Centre for Astrophysics and ...