The "first page" of an incredible cosmic atlas being built by the Euclid Space Telescope has been released. The millions of stars and galaxies represent just 1% of the 3D map the mission will create.

Ancient cosmic light that has uniformly filled the universe since around 400,000 years after the Big Bang could act like a treasure map that guides scientists to the secrets of dark matter.

The first images captured by a powerful space telescope designed to create the most detailed 3D map of the “dark side” of the universe have been revealed. Launched by the European Space Agency ...

The 208-gigapixel image showcases an area of the southern sky about 500 times the area of the full Moon, as seen between March 25, 2024 and April 8, 2024. The image mosaic is just 1% of the wide ...

Our results show that about 69 percent of our universe’s energy is dark energy. They also demonstrate, once again, that Einstein’s simplest form of dark energy—the cosmological constant—agrees the ...

Wicked High-Definition Image of the Cosmic Web Shows the Universe’s Dark Matter Scaffolding New data reveals a 3-million-light-year filament connecting two galaxies, each of which hosts a ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A new timelapse photo transforms 3I/ATLAS into a giant "cosmic ...