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

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

WASHINGTON — Mysterious dark energy, which likely causes the universe to keep expanding, seems to have another effect: It prevents the biggest clusters of galaxies from getting too fat. Astronomers ...

Rolf Landauer showed that "information is physical" with every bit equivalent to a small amount of energy proportional to ...

Whether the Universe will 'end' at all is not certain, but all evidence suggests it will continue being humanity's cosmic ...

The nascent space telescope has collected plenty of data since it launched, and now has produced the largest images of space taken from space. Reading time 2 minutes In July 2023, scientists launched ...

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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, ...

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 ...

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.

Scientists led by a team from the University of Chicago recently released a study that mapped some of the largest known objects in the universe. The study may help scientists test theories about how ...

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 ...