As many believe, the Big Bang started our universe. But not everyone is aware that the early world is nothing like what we can see these days. There's no stars, planets, galaxies or nebulas. For a bit ...

Astronomers plan to gain insight into the existence of the ‘mysterious’ dark matter by creating the first three-dimensional map of the universe, a project lead by UA astronomer Daniel Eisenstein. The ...

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) uses a 2.5-meter telescope with a wider field of view than any other large telescope, located on a mountaintop in New Mexico called Apache Point and devoted solely ...

Looking back in time: a slice in time of the universe showing bubbles of galaxies that are a result of baryon acoustic oscillations. (Courtesy: Claire Lamman/DESI collaboration/custom colormap package ...

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At the January AAS meeting, researchers from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) announced that they have measured the distance to galaxies more than six billion light-years away to an ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. — Ask an astronomer how fast the universe is currently expanding and you’ll get a fuzzy answer (SN: 4/5/14, p. 18). But thanks to a measurement with unprecedented precision, astronomers ...

After a complex statistical analysis of some one million galaxies, a team of researchers at several Chinese universities, and the University of Cordoba was able to publish the results of the study in ...

Astronomers have made the largest and best map yet of the large-scale structure of our universe: a map of 1.2 million galaxies that sheds some light on the mystery of dark energy. The Sloan Digital ...

A plot of BAO Amplitude vs. Baryon Fraction. Credit: Alex Krolewski et al, Physical Review D (2025). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.111.063526 Researchers from the University of Waterloo have proposed a new ...

Shadowy messengers from the Big Bang have seemingly left their mark on ring-shaped patterns imprinted on the sky. Subatomic particles called neutrinos, released just one second after the universe’s ...

The most ambitious attempt yet to trace the history of the universe has seen “first light.” The Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS), a part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III), ...