Finding patterns and reducing noise in large, complex datasets generated by the gravitational wave-detecting LIGO facility ...

Rather than relying on a cheek swab or a little blood, however, these cosmic DNA tests utilize tiny ripples in the fabric of ...

When astronomers detected the first long-predicted gravitational waves in 2015, it opened a whole new window into the universe. Before that, astronomy depended on observations of light in all its ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a unique image that revealed 44 individual stars in a galaxy 6.5 billion light ...

The majority of our evidence for dark matter’s existence comes from observing visible (or baryonic) matter that does not ...

Scientists at the University of California, Riverside, have developed an unsupervised machine learning tool that identifies ...

When you first learned about the Solar System, you probably saw diagrams that made it look orderly, with planets arranged in ...

A team of astronomers have discovered a rather curious exoplanetary system that has two gas giant planets that are messing up each other’s orbit! On of them is 3.8 times the mass of Jupiter and ...

Capturing images of individual stars in distant galaxies has generally been considered impossible for decades. But NASA’s ...