Archaeologists Thought This Was a Roman Temple. It Might Actually Be a 1,700-Year-Old Library

Using an innovative approach, scientists reevaluated a room thought to be a cult shrine, finding more evidence that this was ...

Lost Ancient Wales History Surfaces as UK Heatwave Uncovers 5,000-Year-Old Sites and Buried Roman Buildings

Aerial surveys during a Welsh heatwave uncovered hidden Roman buildings, a Neolithic monument, and Iron Age sites, offering a rare glimpse into the region's ancient history.

2-kiloparsec trail of stars could reveal how dark matter shapes galaxies

A thin ribbon of stars around the ultra-diffuse galaxy UGC 9050-Dw1 may be the first globular-cluster stellar stream identified beyond the Milky Way. Its shape allowed astronomers to reconstruct the ...

Hubble vs Roman: How NASA's new space telescope will change our view of the universe

Hubble is built to study individual objects or relatively small regions of the sky in great detail. Roman, meanwhile, will ...
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NASA has fueled the Roman Space Telescope for a launch that could map 100,000 new planets

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has received the propellant it needs to maneuver after launch, moving the ...

Stellar stream beyond Milky Way offers new tool to map dark matter

In the image above, a faint trail of stars can be seen stretching across the galaxy. These structures, known as globular cluster stellar streams, are coherent stellar structures that retain a record ...
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A 2,000-Year-Old Roman Shipwreck Was Just Discovered Off the Coast of Sicily

A pair of divers unintentionally discovered a Roman-era shipwreck on the seafloor off the western coast of Sicily. According to the Italian Ministry of Culture, the site has been undisturbed for more ...

A cosmic breadcrumb trail leads astronomers to a discovery in another galaxy

In a first, astronomers say they’ve detected a long ribbon of stars outside the Milky Way. The globular cluster stellar ...

5.6 Trillion Pixels, 4 Billion Objects: Inside the Largest 2D Map of the Universe Ever Built

DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys mapped 4 billion celestial objects across 75% of the sky - and anyone can explore all 5.6 trillion pixels free in a browser.
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First stellar stream beyond Milky Way opens new way to map dark matter

The first globular cluster stellar stream found beyond the Milky Way could provide a new way to map dark matter in distant ...
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Roman surveyors built roads in dead straight lines to places they could not see, using a stick with four weights on it

Look at a map of Britain or northern Italy and certain roads stand out ...

Scientists detect first globular cluster stellar stream outside Milky Way, opening new way to map dark matter

Astronomers have discovered the first globular cluster stellar stream outside the Milky Way, offering a new way to study dark matter in distant galaxies.