Observatories in Chile’s Atacama Desert, including the world’s largest optical telescope, could be blinded by light pollution ...
A "cosmic CT scan" performed by scientists using two very different cosmic surveys has revealed the cosmos is less clumpy and ...
Dozens of boxes holding mirrors are placed along a remote desert hill in northern Chile as workers make progress in the ...
The European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) — the world's largest visible- and infrared-light ...
Across cosmic history, powerful forces have acted on matter, reshaping the universe into an increasingly complex web of ...
This discrepancy is measured using a metric called Sigma 8 (σ8), which tracks the clumpiness of matter. Lower-than-expected ...
Researchers studied how the universe’s structure changed over time. They found that the universe is less clumpy than expected ...
Researcher and Jesuit priest Adam Hincks on the University of Toronto’s supercomputing prowess, mapping invisible matter and deciphering the mysteries of the cosmos A viral earworm about a ...
Plates of aluminum will be added to the exterior of the frame to protect the telescope from the extreme environment of the Atacama desert, including variable temperatures, according to a statement ...