An international research collaboration has used advanced computer simulations to investigate how faint radio signals from ...

For centuries, scientists have puzzled over globular clusters, the dense star systems that orbit galaxies without dark matter ...

A swarm of galaxies called the Bullet Cluster is the biggest, best natural laboratory for studying dark matter that ...

Over the past decades, many research teams worldwide have been trying to detect dark matter, an elusive type of matter that ...

For astronomers studying dark matter, the Bullet Cluster is one of the greatest laboratories in the universe. Follow-up ...

Globular clusters are dense groups of hundreds of thousands to millions of stars that orbit galaxies such as the Milky Way.

If galaxies, galaxy clusters, and superclusters are the "fibers" and "nodes" that make up the cosmic web, then cosmic voids ...

An international team of astronomer’s dark matter halo discovery an unusual astronomical Einstein Cross phenomenon: a galaxy ...

Where exactly are we in the Milky Way? This video maps our true cosmic address with Gaia data—central bar, spiral arms, dark-matter halo, and the Orion Arm where the Solar System lives—and explains ...

A stronomers have seen something they did not expect: an Einstein Cross with not just the standard four images, there was an extra one. This unprecedented present might allow astronomers to better ...

A team of international astronomers have identified a cosmic oddity unlike anything seen before: a galaxy bent by gravity into an Einstein Cross with not four but five distinct images.