Voluminous clouds of cosmic dust permeate our galaxy, but only recently has software allowed detailed observations of the stuff at scale.

DESI's first dataset maps 18.7 million celestial objects, aiding dark energy, galaxy, and universe expansion studies.

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is mapping millions of celestial objects to better understand dark energy—the ...

After more than a decade of service, the European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft has been powered down for good—closing one ...

Using cutting-edge 3D galaxy maps and an innovative approach called field-level inference (FLI), researchers are uncovering the intricate patterns of dark matter that govern the formation and ...

According to the new DESI numbers, dark energy may be changing over time—either causing the universe’s expansion to ...

Using advanced artificial intelligence (AI) techniques, they trained a neural network to model the dust’s effect on starlight ...

Gaia has transformed the way the Milky Way galaxy is viewed. Its data allowed scientists to recreate not just a 3D map of the ...

What if you could take a picture of every gene inside a living organism—not with light, but with DNA itself? Scientists at ...

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The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument has made the largest 3D map of the universe to date. Fly through millions of galaxies mapped using coordinate data from DESI.

Europe's space agency, ESA, has retired the Gaia satellite after more than nine years of service. Launched in 2013, Gaia ...