York was the first researcher to find an isotope of hydrogen known as deuterium, which helped give researchers an understanding of dark matter.

The sky is about to get a lot clearer. NASA’s latest infrared space telescope, SPHEREx—short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer—will ...

Some of the largest objects in the night sky to view through a telescope are galaxies and supernova remnants, often many times larger in size than the moon but generally much less bright. Even so, ...

Australian Astronomical Optics at Macquarie University has partnered with Swinburne University to process a cosmic data deluge from the Rubin Observatory, supporting the world's largest sky survey ...

Today’s observatories document every pulse and flash in the sky each night. To understand how the cosmos has changed over longer periods, scientists rely on a more tactile technology.

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Simulated images of the cosmos from the DC2 simulated sky survey conducted by the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Dark Energy Science Collaboration (DESC). DC2 simulated five years of image ...

NASA has just turned the entire sky into a kind of infrared rainbow, capturing it in 102 distinct colors that reveal structures and histories our eyes can never see. By scanning the cosmos in this ...