Science in the modern era is increasingly reliant on enormous datasets and automated analysis. In astronomy, the Vera C.

The first batch of data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument is now available for researchers to explore. Taken during the experiment's 'survey validation' phase, the data include distant ...

A selection of active galaxies with supermassive black holes at their centers, illustrating the variety of shapes that can ...

Dr. Mustapha Ishak-Boushaki, a theoretical astrophysicist at The University of Texas at Dallas, has spent his career seeking answers to some of the universe’s greatest mysteries, including why the ...

Researchers have assembled the most detailed view to date of how dark energy has shaped the cosmos, using six years of deep-sky observations. Drawing from the Dark Energy Survey (DES), scientists ...

The Cat’s Eye Nebula takes centre stage in a sparkling sea of stars and galaxies (ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre, E. Bertin, G. Anselmi) The first tranche of ...

IDC has just released estimates that this year, the Digital Universe — meaning every electronically stored piece of data or file out there — will reach 1.2 million petabytes, or 1.2 zettabytes, this ...