The standard cosmological model (present-day version of "Big Bang," called Lambda-CDM) gives an age of the universe close to ...

The existence of massive, elliptical galaxies in the early universe has puzzled astronomers for two decades. An international ...

You might think galaxies can’t ever find each other in our runaway cosmos, but it turns out gravity can sometimes overcome ...

Findings allow scientists to learn more about dark matter’s influence on stars, galaxies, and planets ...

The young galaxy cluster existed about 12.8 billion years ago and has an estimated mass 20 trillion times that of the sun ...

A team of researchers using the James Webb Space Telescope has produced the most detailed map of dark matter to date.

New research using a space-time phenomenon predicted by Einstein presents evidence that the invisible backbone of the ...

Astronomers have produced the most detailed map yet of dark matter, revealing the invisible framework that shaped the Universe long before stars and galaxies formed. Using powerful new observations ...

A flat plane of dark matter beyond the Local Group may explain why nearby galaxies move away from us instead of falling ...

NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes, with a boost from a natural “zoom lens,” have uncovered what may be one of the youngest and brightest galaxies ever seen in the middle of the cosmic “dark ...

Learn how dozens of galaxies may have merged into a giant galaxy shortly after the Big Bang.

New radio observations of molecular gas reveal how dozens of galaxies could have rapidly merged together in the early ...