Data from the James Webb Space Telescope was used to create the largest, highest resolution map of dark matter, just published in Nature Astronomy.

High-resolution images may help scientists understand the ‘gravitational scaffolding’ upon which the universe is built ...

A team of researchers studying the uncertainties associated with a phenomenon known as cosmic birefringence has developed a ...

Dark energy remains one of the most stubborn puzzles in modern science. Despite decades of observation and increasingly powerful telescopes, its true nature is still unknown. Now, scientists involved ...

From cosmic collisions to which planet would make the worst roommate, no topic is out of orbit when it comes to Dr. Neil ...

The most ambitious attempt to do so was the Dark Energy Survey (DES), an international collaboration that scanned a huge ...

For decades, researchers have hoped to demystify what's known as dark matter, a material that comprises just over a quarter ...

Using observations from the James Webb Space Telescope in a patch of the sky covering almost three times the area of the full ...

Six years of Dark Energy Survey observations combine four cosmological probes to refine measurements of cosmic expansion, dark energy behavior, and matter clustering across billions of years.

A new simulation tool lets scientists explore whether self-interacting dark matter could reshape galaxies from the inside out ...

The data analysed consists of 758 nights of observations of one-eighth of the sky conducted by the Dark Energy Survey (DES) ...