"The knowledge of these will ultimately help us understand the formation of the first stars and planets and how our own Milky Way came into being." ...

Astronomers have produced the most detailed map yet of dark matter, revealing the invisible framework that shaped the Universe long before stars and galaxies formed. Using powerful new observations ...

RIT Associate Professor Jeyhan Kartaltepe co-authors paper led by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory revealing new details about dark matter.

A radical new theory regarding the origin of the universe suggests that gravitational waves, tiny ripples in spacetime first predicted by Albert Einstein back in 1915, could have given rise to cosmic ...

If you look across space with a telescope, you’ll see countless galaxies, most of which host large central black holes, billions of stars and their attendant planets. The universe teems with huge, ...

Scientists have created the highest resolution map of the dark matter that threads through the universe—showing its influence ...

The sharpest dark matter map ever reveals the invisible cosmic scaffolding that built galaxies, stars, and ultimately life itself.

If so, why haven’t they said hello? The humble residents of this pale blue dot have been on a quest to find an alien civilisation for more than a century. First, it was the “canals” of Mars. Then ...

Mysterious blasts of radio waves from across the universe called fast radio bursts help astronomers catalog matter. ESO/M. Kornmesser, CC BY-SA If you look across space with a telescope, you’ll see ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Chris Impey, University of Arizona (THE CONVERSATION) If you look across space with a ...