A NASA space telescope will detect a staggering wealth of intricate gravitational lenses that could help unlock the mysteries ...

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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 ...

Researchers, in a recent Physical Review Letters paper, introduce a new mechanism that may finally allow ultralight dark ...

Dark matter "lampshades" could slip between Earth and distant stars, causing tiny amounts of dimming that may help explain ...

NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, funded by the US National Science Foundation and US Department of Energy's Office of ...

The James Webb Space Telescope ... gravitational lens effect, in which the light from distant galaxies behind the cluster is bent around it due to Abell S1063's mass, which creates a curvature ...

Astronomer Vera Rubin, now honored on a U.S. quarter, transformed our understanding of the universe by uncovering powerful ...

Protests against immigration enforcement across the country have resulted in clashes between demonstrators and police.

Gaia, Europe’s Milky Way–mapping spacecraft, shut down earlier this year. It was arguably the most important—and most ...

A cosmic particle detector in Antarctica has emitted a series of bizarre signals that defy the current understanding of ...