The European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope was built to study the dark matter and dark energy that make up […] ...

Cosmic microwave background data support cosmology’s standard model but retain a mystery about the universe’s expansion rate.

A European space telescope launched to explore the dark universe has released a trove of new data on distant galaxies.

The car-sized Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) Camera that was recently installed on the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is ...

Dark matter could also explain certain optical illusions that astronomers see in the deep universe. For example, pictures of galaxies that include strange rings and arcs of light could be ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured stunning images of black holes, revealing their energy and interactions with surroundings. These images sho ...

There's a new twist in the hunt for dark matter, the invisible substance believed to make up 85 percent of all the mass in the universe: it may actually be way lighter. In a study published in the ...

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