Euclid, a European space telescope, just captured 26 million galaxies to reveal the secrets of the dark universe.

This story appears in the May 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine ... a project that aims to map the universe. The survey, which launches in 2020, will employ telescopes in the Northern ...

This story appears in the July 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine ... missions to create the February 1969 hand-­painted map—considered the best reference at the time.

The largest-ever three-dimensional map of the cosmos ... is a tenet of our standard model of the universe, "Lambda CDM". However, observations by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) at the ...

Get a sneak peek at Academy Award-winning actor Geoffrey Rush and newcomer Johnny Flynn as Nobel Prize-winning physicist Albert Einstein, in National ... The universe is swiftly expanding ...

Being able to take a snapshot of that universe is something new under the sun. And it’s great fun too. Jim Richardson has been a National Geographic photographer for over three decades ...

There's a lot hiding in the universe's dark corners. Interstellar dust clouds and inky stretches of deep space can appear dull to ordinary telescopes. But to a car-size telescope 26 million miles ...