IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. On March 6, 2008, in New York, New ...

Last year, our most detailed map of the universe yet suggested our understanding of dark energy has been wrong for decades. The shock result is reigniting the search for a better cosmic story ...

We should not despair that we live in a universe which is beyond our understanding. We can in fact be confident that we do understand much about how the universe works ...

Bode’s Big Night. On December 31, 1774, Johann E. Bode discovered both M81 and M82. In 1779, Pierre Mechain independently ...

A closer look at the Lambda Cold Dark Matter model, its core components, supporting evidence, and why new observations are ...

A scientist has claimed the place we cannot see beyond the observable universe is where heaven could be located. This place ...

Cosmology is puzzled as to why two methods for measuring the expansion of the cosmos yield different results. A third method ...

Edwin Hubble (November 20, 1889-September 28, 1953,) was an American astronomer who helped to establish the field of ...

It's well established that the universe is expanding, but there's serious disagreement among scientists over how fast it's happening. Two of our best ways of measuring the cosmic expansion rate, the ...

After 25 years of planning, six years of data collection, and six more years of analysis, scientists have published a portion of the final results of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) - the largest, most ...

Space scientists have shown off an incredible image of a “space egg.” NASA said Tuesday the Hubble Space Telescope has revealed a dramatic interplay of light and shadow in what’s called the Egg Nebula ...

Light emerges from a dusty disk ejected from a waning star's surface just a few hundred years ago in the Egg Nebula. Credit: ESA / NASA / B. Balick (University of Washington) A new Hubble Space ...