New research calculates extragalactic background light over the universe's lifetime, shedding light on star-formation rates.

Campus News Universe’s ultraviolet background provides clues about missing galaxies A new technique to detect the cosmic ultraviolet background radiation may show why there are so few small galaxies.

Researchers at Durham and collaborators in the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) mission have proposed a bold new ...

For decades, astronomers have been working to explore the properties of the first generation of stars in the universe. These stars created new chemical elements, enriched the chemical composition of ...

Astronomers are trying to learn more about our universe's background hum, which could unlock new information about our universe.

Artist's rendering of an array of millisecond pulsars in our galaxy being used to search for a background of low-frequency gravitational waves permeating the Universe.

We can bypass the foregrounds of our own Solar System, thanks to these gamma-ray signals and how they interact with the extragalactic background of starlight, to understand and measure how star ...