Science in the modern era is increasingly reliant on enormous datasets and automated analysis. In astronomy, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST)—a ten-year survey ...

Researchers have assembled the most detailed view to date of how dark energy has shaped the cosmos, using six years of deep-sky observations. Drawing from the Dark Energy Survey (DES), scientists ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A high schooler, Matteo Paz, won $250,000 for discovering 1.5 million new space objects with AI. Paz built an AI algorithm to ...

A selection of active galaxies with supermassive black holes at their centers, illustrating the variety of shapes that can ...

Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Washington have announced an expansive, multi-year collaboration to create new software platforms to analyze large astronomical datasets generated by ...

Physicists have been puzzling over conflicting observational results pertaining to the accelerating expansion rate of our Universe—a major discovery recognized by the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics. New ...

The interactive online map, created using data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, details some 800,000 galaxies across a vast cosmic distance. Scrolling and zooming in can take users some 13.5 ...

The universe is approaching the midpoint of its 33-billion-year lifespan, a Cornell physicist calculates with new data from dark-energy observatories. After expanding to its peak size about 11 billion ...

The universe is truly a vast and expansive place, filled with the most bizarre things that would stretch even the most ...

When Matteo Paz scored a high school internship at the California Institute of Technology, the scientists there gave him the daunting task of manually sorting reams of data from a NASA mission. It was ...