In a groundbreaking study published inNature Astronomy, astronomers have identified the lowest-mass dark object ever discovered through gravitational lensing. This breakthrough provides significant ...

Using a global network of telescopes, astronomers have detected the lowest-mass dark object yet found in the universe.

UC Riverside has developed a technology that enables scientists to peer deeper into the universe. Gravitational-wave science ...

With the aid of a multinational network of telescopes, scientists have been able to detect the lowest-mass dark object ever ...

Explore the universe with multi-messenger astronomy, combining light, gravitational waves, neutrinos, and cosmic rays for a ...

Even before the first stars lit up the Universe, the Cosmos was not the cold place most researchers once imagined. New ...

In May 2019, astronomers picked up something strange in the fabric of spacetime. The LIGO and Virgo detectors recorded a ...

A lot of things are symmetrical – cats, dogs (bilateral symmetry), planets, stars (spherical symmetry), galaxies, pies (radial symmetry) and a lot more, except for the Universe. If you look really ...

The low carbon levels are particularly interesting, as previously discovered “pristine” or metal-poor stars generally ...

The Copernican Principle, named in honor of Nicolaus Copernicus (who proposed the heliocentric model of the Universe), states ...

Astronomy is, in essence, an exercise in inference. We cannot touch the stars, nor scoop up galaxies in a lab. Instead, we ...

The paper presents evidence that dark energy – a proposed form of energy that affects the universe – may not be a constant ...