Every galaxy is thought to form at the center of a dark matter halo—a region of gravitationally bound matter that extends far ...

Learn how through a process known as molecular hydrogen cooling, stars may be able to form in dark matter halos under 10 ...

Dr. Richard Lieu, a physics professor at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama ...

Ethan Nadler, a computational astrophysicist at UC San Diego, may have found an answer. Using analytic predictions from ...

The universe is vast and mysterious, with over 85% of its mass composed of an invisible substance known as dark matter.

U.S. National Laboratories (Argonne, Lawrence Livermore, and Oak Ridge) possess three of the world’s fastest exascale ...

Astronomers discovered it using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. The size and shape surprised experts worldwide.

Euclid was launched atop a Falcon 9 in early July 2023 on a mission to map nearly a third of the sky in incredible detail.

The Big Wheel galaxy formed just 1.7 billion years after the Big Bang, at a time when the universe was only 15% of its current age.

A new theory challenges the standard model of cosmology, arguing that dark matter and dark energy are not the forces behind ...

The spins of some early galaxies could be a clue that the entire observable universe exists within a black hole—except, that ...