The manuscript pages have been very carefully handled before scanning. (Jacqueline Ramseyer Orrell/SLAC National Accelerator ...

Astronomers have crafted a map of the most powerful form of supermassive black holes across several billion light years of space. The three-dimensional map plots the locations of 1.3 million quasars, ...

Astronomers have created the largest and most detailed 3D map yet of a glowing signal from the early universe, revealing hidden galaxies and gas from 9-11 billion years ago. By analyzing faint ...

It's unsettling to flip through a website scientists made that details the observable universe. I highly recommend doing it. Monisha Ravisetti was a science writer at CNET. She covered climate change, ...

A unique technique allowed astronomers to see the early universe as a "sea of light" and explore the effects of gravity and dark energy on cosmic evolution.

More than one million sources of energy are featured in the first X-ray images from the eROSITA space telescope. By Laura Baisas Published Feb 5, 2024 12:00 PM EST Get the Popular Science daily ...

The USGS Astrogeology Science Center in Flagstaff, Arizona recently released a series of geologic Martian maps that could all be impactful to future missions to the Red Planet. Does size matter? In ...

Years ago, astronomers started working on a comprehensive map of the Milky Way by observing it from the European Southern Observatory, an intergovernmental research organization located in Chile. The ...

The map extends over the period of 9 to 11 billion years ago, during the universe's ‘cosmic noon' when star formation was at ...