The Digital Universe, developed by the American Museum of Nat-ural History, incorporates data from dozens of organizations and scientists worldwide to create the most complete and …

“dark energy” that pervades the universe. Dark energy can be thought of as a sort of “antigravity” that is pushing galaxies a art by stretching space at an increasing pace. The nature of this …

Created by Johns Hopkins University astronomers with data mined over two decades by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the map allows the public to experience data previously only …

NASA’s WMAP satellite takes images of the most distant part of the universe observable from Earth. The image shows the furthest we can see using any form of light.

The authors reanalyzed a major cosmological data set and concluded that the data favors a closed universe with 99% certainty — even as other evidence suggests the universe is flat.

Leeuwen-hoek peered into his microscope and discovered the microscopic world; Hubble used the great 100- inch- diameter telescope on Mount Wilson in California to discover the …

As is known, divided by the speed of light, the dimension of distance can be converted into a time dimension. In this way, by dividing both sides of the original formula which defines the radius …