A new type of self-interacting dark matter could provide solutions to three very different cosmic puzzles, new research ...

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Astronomers have unveiled one of the largest cosmological simulation datasets ever created, offering an expansive new tool to ...

The FLAMINGO project helps scientists explore how galaxies, dark matter and cosmic structures evolved over billions of years.

A brand-new version of the Star Wars galaxy map has just dropped on the official Star Wars website, and it’s packed with updates from the latest stories in the franchise. This map is a refreshed take ...

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, one of the most extensive surveys of the cosmos ever conducted, finished all observations for its originally planned 3D map of the universe. Scientists at UC ...

A thin slice of the map produced by the DESI five-year survey shows galaxies and quasars above and below the plane of the Milky Way. The universe's large-scale structure is visible in the magnified ...

This is just a small portion of the DESI map, revealing the large-scale structure of the universe. Each dot represents a galaxy. Credit: DESI Collaboration and DESI ...

The universe has a hidden structure, and a University of Virginia professor is mapping it in 3D, using 46 million galaxies and quasars and 19 million stars. Satya Gontcho A Gontcho, an assistant ...

On April 14, the 5,000 fiber-optic eyes of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) swiveled onto a patch of sky near the Little Dipper. Roughly every 20 minutes, they locked on to distant ...

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