Astronomers have created the largest and most detailed 3D map yet of a glowing signal from the early universe, revealing ...

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The violent collision of two neutron stars is providing new insights on how the universe’s heaviest elements were created.

TL;DR: The James Webb Space Telescope has collected extensive data enabling scientists to publish the largest and most detailed map of the universe, covering nearly the entire span of cosmic history.

A team of astronomers have put together the largest, most detailed map of the universe ever created – and you can explore it now. The interactive online map, created using data from NASA's James Webb ...

Schematic of the night sky areas are outlined with contour lines, similar to elevation lines on a hiking map, revealing the “fingerprints” of dark matter. A Rutgers-led team of scientists has ...

Scientists at Rutgers and collaborators have traced the invisible dark matter scaffolding of the universe using over 100,000 Lyman-alpha emitting galaxies. By studying how these galaxies clustered ...

The universe is soaked in weak-but-persistent magnetic fields. Despite decades of research, astronomers still aren't exactly sure where these magnetic fields came from. But new research suggests they ...