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

Astronomers may have finally cracked one of the universe’s biggest mysteries: how black holes grew so enormous so fast after ...

An international collaboration of scientists from Durham University in the UK, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and École ...

An early black hole feeds too fast—yet still blasts X-rays and radio jets.

If the universe is packed with trillions of stars and galaxies, the night sky should be glowing like the surface of the Sun. But it isn’t, and that simple fact created one of the greatest puzzles in ...

"This is a structure we've never seen before, so it could be a new class of dark object." ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Using observations from the James Webb Space Telescope in a patch of the sky ...

Astronomers have confirmed the earliest barred spiral galaxy in the universe, a Milky-Way-like structure that existed just 2 ...

Researchers have created a high-resolution map of dark matter, the 'invisible scaffolding of the Universe', showing its ...

Astronomers used to rely on chance to catch a glimpse of fleeting explosions in space. A fresh approach to watching these ...

Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists have created one of the most detailed high-resolution maps of dark matter ever produced, revealing how this invisible, ghostly ...

This new map is not only the most detailed view of the universe’s invisible scaffolding to date, it also allows astronomers to look deeper into cosmic history.