In 1929, an astronomer named Edwin Hubble stood atop Mount Wilson in California, peering into the night sky. What he s ...

Jee compared dark matter to crystal-clear water in a pond, with pebbles as the galaxies. “You cannot see the water unless there is wind, which causes ripples. Those ripples distort the shapes of the ...

The 10-year survey is the primary mission of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, located on a mountaintop at the edge of Chile’s ...

A cataclysmic variable star isn’t technically a single object. Instead, it’s a compact binary system composed of a white ...

The invisible dark matter is one of the universe's biggest mysteries, and its existence is confirmed only by the ...

The universe is a happening place—full of exploding stars, erupting black holes, zipping asteroids, and much more. The Rubin Observatory released its first images last week, and they’re stunning—vast, ...

SISSA will host an event as part of the PhD for Innovation programme, in the Big Meeting Room (7th floor).The guest speaker will be Xiaochuan (Giovanni) Ge, a SISSA alumnus and now Vice President of ...

A vast filament of gas stretching across the cosmos may help solve the mystery of the Universe’s missing matter. Astronomers have identified a massive filament of hot gas connecting four galaxy ...

For centuries, Korea has stood at the heart of fermentation culture. Traditional Korean alcohols made from rice, nuruk ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope recently zeroed in on the Bullet Cluster—delivering highly detailed images that show a greater abundance of extremely faint and distant galaxies than ever before.

The Defense Department will still maintain the satellite program will cease sharing the imagery with NOAA and NASA.

Mathematical models indicate that the worst-case scenario of the Trump administration’s HIV-related cuts could result in 3 ...