For many years, scientists have tried to understand how the Milky Way is positioned in space, and how it moves together with ...

We live in a dark, dark, world. The post Our Entire Galaxy Appears to Be Embedded in a Colossal Sheet of Dark Matter appeared ...

Astronomers have confirmed the earliest barred spiral galaxy in the universe, a Milky-Way-like structure that existed just 2 ...

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

Computer simulations carried out by astronomers from the University of Groningen in collaboration with researchers from ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed the most distant, early galaxy in the known universe. The new contender, MoM-z14, is visible just 280 million years after the Big Bang.

Three billion years after the Big Bang, a massive galaxy already looked like it had run out of time. It spun in a calm, ...

Astronomers have discovered powerful magnetic fields steering gas, dust, and star formation in a dramatic galaxy merger.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has once again redefined the boundaries of cosmic observation. A recent study published via NASA Science confirmed the detection of galaxy MoM-z14, an unexpectedly ...

Researchers at the University of British Columbia and Dalhousie University have found a young galaxy cluster that appears far ...

Scientists have created the highest resolution map of the dark matter that threads through the universe—showing its influence ...

Galaxy dynamics are confronted with one of the deepest problems of modern physics: the dark matter problem. The motions of stars and gas observed exceed what can be explained by the mass visible in ...