The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is little known to the public, but represents one of the most-challenging efforts in observational cosmology ever attempted. The most recent phase, SDSS-III, began ...

While mapping streams of stars coursing through the Milky Way’s halo, astronomers at Cambridge University in England discovered two new, faint satellite galaxies orbiting our own. Vasily Belokurov, ...

The SDSs phenomenon has been exacerbated in recent years due to climate change, which is caused by areas in Iraq, parts of Iran, Syria, Jordan, and even Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and with the slightest ...

The SDSs phenomenon is no longer an uninvited guest because it has been plaguing the country for several years and has caused problems in many provinces. According to experts, natural and human ...

While mapping streams of stars coursing through the Milky Way’s halo, an international team of astronomers reports finding seven faint satellite galaxies orbiting our own. An eighth object, discovered ...

This map of the sky from the SDSS-III image shows the view toward the northern hemisphere of our galaxy. Visible in the map are the clusters and walls of galaxies that are the largest structures in ...

After 20 years and four previous phases, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey’s Phase V(SDSS V) is ready to give Yale astronomers a new look at the wonders of the cosmos. The survey’s mission is ambitious: It ...

A team from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-II) and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory today announced discovery of the brightest known image of a galaxy from the early universe. While furious ...

WASHINGTON DC — The population of supernovae — exploding stars in distant galaxies — has exploded here on Earth with an unprecedented number of new discoveries logged in just 90 days by the Sloan ...