Hubble's new image of galaxy cluster Abell 209 reveals over 100 galaxies and gravitational lensing effects from dark matter ...

Though invisible, dark matter has a strong pull on space. Its presence bends spacetime, changing the paths of light nearby.

This unprecedented view of the Bullet Cluster provided by the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory reveals how the dark matter is distributed.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has provided groundbreaking insights into the Bullet Cluster, a cosmic collision zone located 3.8 billion light-years from Earth. The JWST’s enhanced imaging ...

A massive, spacetime-warping cluster of galaxies is the setting of today's NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image. The galaxy ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope recently zeroed in on the Bullet Cluster—delivering highly detailed images that show a greater abundance of extremely faint and distant galaxies than ever before.

In a groundbreaking study of 1.58 million galaxy clusters, an international team of astronomers led by Dr. Michael West of ...

A new galaxy was found with 10,000 more of unseen mass than the Milky Way. Now, scientists are wondering if there are more of ...

New simulations suggest that dozens of ultra-faint “ghost” galaxies may be orbiting the Milky Way, hidden from current ...

Dark matter remains one of science's deepest mysteries. It makes up about 25% of our universe, yet scientists only observe ...

They often twirl around heavier ones, like our Milky Way, as satellite dancers. The dark matter distribution of a Milky Way ...