Featuring the world’s largest digital camera, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will capture these mysterious phenomena in more ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a unique image that revealed 44 individual stars in a galaxy 6.5 billion light-years away from the Milky Way.

and is complementary to dark-matter maps constructed from gravitational lensing," said Fabian Schmidt. Ultimately, galaxy ...

The majority of our evidence for dark matter’s existence comes from observing visible (or baryonic) matter that does not ...

Dark matter is invisible, non-baryonic matter hypothesized to explain phenomena including gravitational lensing and galactic rotation curves. Dark energy is thought to permeate the Universe and ...

The research suggests that the universe has become “messier and more complicated” over time, with a less clumpy distribution of matter.

Across cosmic history, powerful forces have acted on matter, reshaping the universe into an increasingly complex web of ...

Pictures show how the stars look during a period known as the cosmic noon - the middle ages of the universe when the most ...

In this case, though, multiple layers of gravitational lensing from Abell 370 managed ... gravitational lenses and probe the mysteries of dark matter. At least some of that work will almost ...

When astronomers detected the first long-predicted gravitational waves in 2015, it opened a whole new window into the Universe.

Dark matter repositories have enough gravity to bend light, which creates a type of telescope, a process known as gravitational lensing that allows for distant galaxy observation. Natarajan is ...