A dam Riess was 27 years old when he began the work that earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics, and just 41 when he received ...

The Hubble Space Telescope revolutionized our understanding of the cosmos, capturing breathtaking images and uncovering the secrets of distant galaxies, black holes, and the early universe. This video ...

The mystery of how planets and icy objects formed in the farthest reaches of our solar system just took an exciting turn. A ...

As part of the University of California Observatories (UCO), it continues to play a vital role in educating scientists and studying the universe. Over the seven ... built the 10-meter telescopes for ...

The new model forgoes the need for either dark matter or dark energy as explanations for the universe's acceleration ... based telescope—like the Keck Observatory [Waimea, Hawaii], or the ...

Keck Observatory Instrument Scientist and astronomer ... great example of how with astronomy we often begin a study and the universe surprises us with mysteries we didn't expect," explained ...

Keck Observatory. According to a press release ... contributing to discoveries that expand our understanding of the universe. “The cultural protocol was one of my favorite things of the tour ...

Keck Observatory in Hawaii confirmed a ninth ... complex collision than the one recently highlighted by Hubble, per Universe Today’s Alan Boyle. In fact, collisions involving one galaxy ...

Without Andromeda as a proxy for spiral galaxies in the universe at large, astronomers would know ... Extragalactic Imaging Multi-Object Spectrograph (DEIMOS) at the W.M. Keck Observatory. As ...

The telescope will catalogue billions of new objects and produce a new map of the entire night sky every three days with the largest digital camera ever made. High atop Chile’s 2,700-meter Cerro ...