For astronomers, the challenge of mapping the Universe has been similar to mapping a city from night-time aerial snapshots showing only streetlights. These pick out a few interesting neighbourhoods, ...

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Gemini 3 uses state-of-the-art reasoning to generate richer visualizations and deeper interactivity. See how it codes a seamless 3D journey through the scale of the universe, from a proton to the ...

One of the fundamental questions humanity has always asked is how big is our Universe? One of the fundamental questions humanity has always asked is how big is our Universe? For much of human history, ...

An international team led by astronomers from Kyoto University in Japan, the University of Tokyo, and the University of Oxford in England has released its first version of a 3-D map of the universe ...

Starting late last decade, the Mayall 4-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona began running something called the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument. DESI for short, it is ...

Mikhail Ivanov, Oliver Philcox, and Marko Simonović won the New Horizons Award for their work on large scale structures — the strands and filaments of our universe which contain buried clues to its ...

The first-ever artificial intelligence simulation of the universe seems to work like the real thing — and is almost as mysterious. Researchers reported the new simulation June 24 in the journal ...

For the first time, astrophysicists have used artificial intelligence techniques to generate complex 3D simulations of the universe. The results are so fast, accurate and robust that even the creators ...

We introduce The Fabric of the Universe, an art and science collaboration focused on exploring the cosmic web of dark matter with unconventional techniques and materials. We discuss two of our ...

Astronomers have discovered a group of dwarf galaxies with distinct features that challenge predictions made by the ...