The Dark Energy Survey Collaboration collected information on hundreds of millions of galaxies across the universe using the ...

A new high-resolution map of distant galaxies may help scientists understand a mysterious invisible substance that helps hold ...

Dark matter doesn't absorb or give off light so scientists can't study it directly. But they can observe how its gravity ...

To explain these observations, they proposed a new kind of energy that is responsible for driving the universe’s accelerated expansion: dark energy. Astrophysicists now believe dark energy makes up ...

Scientists have released a new study that catalogues the universe by mapping huge clusters of galaxies. These clusters are some of the largest known objects in the universe — and they can help ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Using observations from the James Webb Space Telescope in a patch of the sky covering almost three times the area of the full moon, scientists have ...

The faint glow of individual stars stretching between two bright galaxies indicates that the galaxies are actively merging while the galaxy clusters that surround them merge as well. The image was ...

As the Dark Energy Survey (DES) releases its final results, we caught up with two physicists who've been involved in the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Astronomers have unveiled a new catalog of massive galaxy clusters, revealing insight on the ...

Dark energy was first identified in 1998, when observations of distant supernovae revealed that the expansion of the universe ...

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