But when paired with other observations, such as the universe's leftover light from the cosmic microwave background ... investigating the nature of dark matter and dark energy in our universe. These ...

On Wednesday (March 19), the European Space Agency (ESA ... considering large samples of background sources. Weak lensing is key to investigating the warping of spacetime due to the distribution of ...

A spiral galaxy known as NGC 4945 exhibits powerful winds of material blowing from the supermassive black hole located at its ...

The microwave background radiation hails from this moment, and thus gives us a direct picture of how matter was distributed at this early time.

Primordial black holes are the earliest black holes thought to exist, and they vanished almost as fast as they came into ...

The quest to understand dark matter continues as NIR spectroscopy reveals potential signatures of this mysterious substance ...

The NASA James Webb Space Telescope captured a stunning image of an Einstein ring, an optical phenomenon created by ...

A European space telescope launched to explore the dark ... works and how mysterious forces called dark energy and dark matter may play a role. The elusive duo make up most of our universe ...