When you look up at the night sky, it appears unchanging. But if you look deep enough you will find that the sky is in fact ...

We are entering a new era of cosmic exploration. The new Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile will transform astronomy with its extraordinary ability to map the universe in breathtaking detail. It is set ...

New research by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) collaboration has produced the clearest images yet of the universe's infancy—the earliest cosmic time yet accessible to humans. Measuring light ...

Dark energy is the mysterious force that drives the expansion of the universe, and scientists have acquired something interesting. They have captured the clearest picture of the expansion of the ...

The world’s largest digital camera brings the night sky to life like never before. The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, a major new scientific facility jointly funded by the US National Science ...

Now let's lift up from Earth for a big-picture look at the changing universe. Astronomers know that the universe is expanding and picking up speed as it does so. But what is this cosmic acceleration?

Professor Manda Banerji receives funding from the Royal Society and the Science and Technology Facilities Council. Dr Philip Wiseman receives funding from the Science and Technology Facilities Council ...