Will two rare supernovas finally tell us how fast the universe is expanding? Perhaps, but we'll have to wait for it for them ...

Webb Space Telescope creates most detailed dark matter map ever, revealing invisible cosmic scaffolding connecting 800,000 ...

This NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month brings us a scene from the distant universe. Pictured here is the galaxy cluster MACS J1149.5+2223, or MACS J1149 for short, which is ...

JWST observations of galaxy cluster MACS J1149 show gravitational lensing used by CANUCS to study distant low-mass galaxies across a wide range of cosmic time.

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, set to begin operations in 2027, will revolutionize our understanding of dark matter by using gravitational lenses to study this mysterious force. By ...

An extremely early Type II supernova explosion, named after the Titan goddess of dawn in Greek mythology, occurred just 1 ...

The European Space Agency has released the first major batch of data from its “dark universe” telescope Euclid. What’s inside could change our understanding of dark matter and the expansion of the ...

Cosmic web Created using data from the JWST, this map shows how dark matter acts as the hidden framework on which visible ...

The Bullet Cluster, named for its distinctive shape, has long been considered a smoking gun for the existence of dark matter in space. What makes this cluster famous isn’t the violence of it all. It’s ...