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

The six-year Dark Energy Survey has released its full results, showing that two leading models of cosmology are equally valid ...

"These results from the Dark Energy Survey shine new light on our understanding of the universe and its expansion." ...

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

There may not be as nearly as many small galaxies in the early universe as astronomers predict there should be, which has big ...

To explain these observations, they proposed a new kind of energy that is responsible for driving the universe’s accelerated expansion: dark energy. Astrophysicists now believe dark energy makes up ...

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

Learn how a supermassive black hole has prevented a dead galaxy that was born soon after the Big Bang from making new stars.

This NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month brings us a scene from the distant universe. Pictured here ...

Studying the dark energy in the universe requires the mapping of thousands of galaxies and detecting various patterns of the ...