In 1929, an astronomer named Edwin Hubble stood atop Mount Wilson in California, peering into the night sky. What he s ...

Since its launch in 1998, various space agencies – including NASA, Russia’s Roscosmos, European Space Agency, and Japan ...

Jee compared dark matter to crystal-clear water in a pond, with pebbles as the galaxies. “You cannot see the water unless there is wind, which causes ripples. Those ripples distort the shapes of the ...

The 10-year survey is the primary mission of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, located on a mountaintop at the edge of Chile’s ...

A cataclysmic variable star isn’t technically a single object. Instead, it’s a compact binary system composed of a white ...

“She is undoubtedly the only known case in the world,” said Thierry Peyrard, a medical biologist at Établissement français du ...

The invisible dark matter is one of the universe's biggest mysteries, and its existence is confirmed only by the ...

The universe is a happening place—full of exploding stars, erupting black holes, zipping asteroids, and much more. The Rubin Observatory released its first images last week, and they’re stunning—vast, ...

SISSA will host an event as part of the PhD for Innovation programme, in the Big Meeting Room (7th floor).The guest speaker will be Xiaochuan (Giovanni) Ge, a SISSA alumnus and now Vice President of ...