Computer algorithms can model the universe, matching simulations to observations and revealing the distribution of dark ...

Physicists have created a 3D shape called the cosmohedron, which can be used to reconstruct the quantum wavefunction of the ...

Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies At the dawn of the 20th century, astronomers faced a ...

Scientists have created over a million simulated cosmic images using the power of supercomputers to anticipate the capabilities of NASA’s upcoming Roman Space Telescope. These synthetic images allow ...

The project, called OpenUniverse, relied on the now-retired Theta supercomputer at the DOE’s (Department of Energy’s) Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois. The supercomputer accomplished a process ...

"As yet, nobody has managed to understand what gives rise to this strange phenomenon, and explaining dark energy remains one ...

The youngest and most metal-rich stars, such as the Sun, are called Population I. Older stars with fewer metals are ...

The early universe experienced a phase of rapid expansion, known as inflation. For decades, cosmologists assumed that this ...

Scientists have confirmed the space around us appears to be growing faster than physics can explain, based off precise ...

A new study suggests that the explosive deaths of the universe's earliest stars created surprising quantities of water that ...

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More than one million images present the cosmos as Nancy Grace Roman Telescope will see it from 2027.