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In the leading model of cosmology, most of the universe is invisible: a combined 95% is made of dark matter and dark energy.

In its first year of full operations, the Euclid space telescope has quietly built one of the most ambitious maps of the ...

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope took advantage of a giant cosmic magnifying glass to create one of the sharpest and most detailed maps of dark matter in the universe. Dark matter is an ...

Does dark matter interact with itself? The answer may lie in vast clusters of colliding galaxies. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

The blank horizontal bar is the galactic plane area, which was excluded from the analysis to avoid strong astrophysical ...

Cosmologists have long been on the hunt for dark matter, which makes up 80 percent of the mass in the universe, and yet is still mysterious. As its name suggests, dark matter doesn’t emit light, ...

For a long time, astronomers have noticed that stars rotate too quickly at the edges of galaxies, as if a hidden mass were ...

For decades, scientists have only inferred dark matter’s existence through its gravitational pull on galaxies, but may now ...

Astronomers have stumbled upon yet another ghostly galaxy that appears to be devoid of dark matter. First spotted in 2024, FCC 224 is a dwarf galaxy that boasts a dozen luminous, tightly bound ...

What we see in our universe only accounts for roughly five per cent of what’s out there. The remaining 95 per cent is ...

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 ...