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 ...

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.

The Hubble Space Telescope has been used to study NGC 1052-DF2 — a galaxy that is lacking dark matter. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center ...

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 ...

“For example, Chandra’s X-rays reveal the high-energy radiation around the supermassive black hole at the center of M31 as ...

For decades, scientists have been searching for the universe's elusive "missing matter," and now they say they finally found it.