NASA's James Webb Space Telescope recently zeroed in on the Bullet Cluster—delivering highly detailed images that show a ...

Because it doesn't interreact with light or electromagnetism, dark matter exists to us only through its influence on visible ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has produced a new image of the Bullet Cluster, which is a titanic collision between ...

Webb’s new images of the Bullet Cluster reveal the most detailed dark matter map yet, shedding light on cosmic collisions and ...

Created as a tribute to dark matter pioneer Vera Rubin, the image was created with the aid of a vast array of telescopes.

Dark matter affects how stars move within galaxies, how galaxies build up over time, and how everything in the universe is held together—but no existing tool has directly detected it. While dark ...

A new study suggests they may have a ghostly shadow—trailing dark matter spirals hovering above and below them. A team of ...

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, set to launch in 2027, would focus on possibly 160,000 gravitational lenses, of which ...

How the pioneering scientist, and namesake of an enormous new telescope, forced astronomers to rethink the universe.

Everything in space – from the Earth and Sun to black holes – accounts for just 15% of all matter in the universe . The rest ...

Read The Andromeda galaxy, also known as Messier 31 (M31), is the closest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way at a distance of ...

The South Pole Telescope has mapped our skies in more detail than ever before, strengthening our understanding of dark energy ...