A team of astronomers have put together the largest, most detailed map of the universe ever created – and you can explore it now.

The astronomers behind a universe-mapping satellite have released the project’s final set of processed data. What you see above is the newest image of the ...

As he saw it, the universe consisted of a series of concentric shells revolving around our planet — one each for the Sun, the Moon, every other planet, the fixed stars, and an outermost level ...

“We now have a second, very primordial map of the universe. Instead of a ‘crisis,’ I think we have an extraordinary opportunity to use these different data sets together. Our map includes all of the ...

Using light from 14,000 distant yet powerful cosmic beacons, astronomers have pieced together the largest and most detailed 3-D map of the ancient universe. Previous versions plotted the locations ...

Blue Skies has partnered with another space company, OHB Italia, to build the satellite fleet, called RadioLuna, which aims to see if small satellites around the moon can pick up faint FM radio ...

Baghdad, the Mesopotamian “cradle of civilization,” is the first stop on the map of this journey. In the prosperous court of the Abbasid caliphate (750 to 1258), paper, a necessary tool of the ...

In the Lascaux caves of southwestern France, which are famously adorned with 17,000-year-old paintings, the artist’s subject is almost always a large animal.. But hovering above the image of one bull ...

Distant, ancient galaxies are giving scientists more hints that a mysterious force called dark energy may not be what they thought. The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument uses a telescope to ...

The map segment, which was found beneath the text on a sheet of medieval parchment, is thought to be a copy of the long-lost star catalog of the second century B.C. Greek astronomer Hipparchus ...