The universe doesn't come with an instruction manual—but if it did, University of Missouri Assistant Professor Charles ...

Spherex (the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) will survey hundreds of millions of galaxies and "their combined cosmic glow" to give ...

Astrophysicists have long suspected that some dark matter halos might exist without forming stars, but no one knew the exact mass limit where this transition occurs. A computational astrophysicist has ...

Processed with rainbow hues to represent a range of infrared wavelengths, the new pictures indicate the astrophysics space ...

Closer to home in our own Milky Way galaxy, Spherex will hunt for water and other ingredients of life in the icy clouds between stars ... at the universe through a set of rainbow-colored glasses ...