The research is part of an ongoing effort to map the universe’s matter distribution across different wavelengths of light. Distant cosmic structures appear shifted toward the red part of the spectrum, ...

RIT associate professor Michael Zemcov is a co-investigator on NASA’s SPHEREx mission, launching in early 2025, which will map the entire sky.

Scientists have now mapped the forces acting inside a proton, showing in unprecedented detail how quarks—the tiny particles ...

The Standard Model (SM), the main physics framework describing elementary particles and the forces driving them, outlines key patterns in physical interactions referred to as gauge symmetries. One of ...

Analyze monthly-averaged or daily sea ice extent and concentration via interactive maps. Plot monthly ice extent anomalies, map sea ice concentration anomalies, and more. Use a map-based interface to ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

Experts emphasize that the cosmic microwave background is shaped by everything it encounters on its journey, including ...

The "dark universe detective" space telescope Euclid has discovered its first Einstein ring in the process, learning about ...

SPHEREx is short for short for: Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer.

10 million square feet) array. This is because it was known since the 1980s that such a large array would be required for analyzing the expansion of the Universe a mere 100 million years after the Big ...

The area known as Armour Square on the city’s South Side seems to exist mostly on community area maps and in data sets. On Chicago’s official community areas map, it occupies a slender stretch of land ...