To check these predictions, the DES had to combine all four of the methods of investigating dark energy: study of signals ...

On a clear night far from city lights, the Milky Way stretches overhead as a pale band, yet most of the sky between those ...

Dark matter is a mysterious substance that glues galaxies together. This map from the James Webb Space Telescope could help ...

High-resolution images may help scientists understand the ‘gravitational scaffolding into which everything else falls and is ...

“As a result, for the past four decades, most researchers have believed that dark matter must be cold when it is born in the ...

“By revealing dark matter with unprecedented precision, our map shows how an invisible component of the Universe has ...

Published in Nature Astronomy, the new map uses fresh observations by the James Webb Space Telescope, aimed at a well-studied ...

"These results from the Dark Energy Survey shine new light on our understanding of the universe and its expansion." ...

Astrophysicists are closer than ever to solving the mystery of what makes up almost 70 percent of the Universe.

The universe is packed with riddles, but few are as stubborn or as fascinating as dark matter. First proposed in 1933 by astronomer Fritz Zwicky, this elusive substance refuses to play by the rules: ...