Astronomers have long used the Milky Way as a benchmark for studying galaxy formation and evolution, assuming that its ...

Astronomers have discovered a group of dwarf galaxies with distinct features that challenge predictions made by the ...

Dark matter has always been one of the biggest mysteries in astrophysics. The "Dark Big Bang" theory may have the answer.

The nature of dark matter has puzzled astronomers since discovering that 85% of the universe's matter is invisible through ...

An international team of astronomers used the Webb Telescope to search for so-called "emission-line galaxies" from the first ...

Astronomers often use the Milky Way as a standard for studying how galaxies form and evolve. Since we’re inside it, ...

Data collected by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is in conflict with predictions based on the hypothesis of dark matter ...

For decades, scientists have used the Milky Way as a model for understanding how galaxies form. But three new studies raise ...

The first year of data from the 5,000 robotic eyes of DESI shows Einstein's theory of general relativity is the right recipe ...

How do you weigh one of the largest objects in the entire universe? Very carefully, according to new research. The cosmic web ...

But data are not confirming the popular hypothesis that invisible dark matter helped the earliest stars and galaxies clump together. Instead, the oldest galaxies are large and bright, in agreement ...

Nov. 12, 2024 — The standard model for how galaxies formed in the early ... 2024 — Researchers have strengthened the case that matter becomes dark energy when massive stars collapse and ...