A new emulator is tackling the near-impossible task of mapping the universe's large-scale structure without sacrificing intricate details.

Have you ever dreamed of traveling through the vast universe like an astronaut? Now, the opportunity has arrived! The European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia space telescope has brought us an unprecedented ...

Scientists have used the Gaia Space Telescope to create a 3D map of star kindergartens within the Milky Way, and you can fly through it.

Einstein’s version of dark energy is known as the cosmological constant. It implies a fixed amount of dark energy in each cubic meter of space; as the universe expands, more dark energy appears. So ...

In early 2024, McGill University doctoral student Vishwangi Shah and her colleagues were conducting a routine review of data from the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment when they noticed ...

Astronomers have long relied on supercomputers to simulate the immense structure of the Universe, but a new tool called Effort.jl is changing that. By mimicking the behavior of complex cosmological ...

An international team of scientists has unveiled the Flagship 2 galaxy mock-up. No, it's not a cardboard diorama for a school science fair, but is instead the most massive and detailed cosmological si ...

Mapping the Universe’s vast structure no longer requires endless supercomputer time. Effort.jl brings cosmic modeling to laptops without sacrificing accuracy.