Dark matter and dark energy are mysteries that have confounded scientists for decades, even though they comprise 95% of the ...

The first time I heard about galaxies without dark matter, I was sitting in my very first graduate class at the University of São Paulo. It was 2018, and the discovery had just been announced. A team ...

The MOTHRA telescope will use over a thousand lenses and narrowband filters to detect faint hydrogen gas linking galaxies.

Make way for MOTHRA, the world’s largest all-lens telescope, which intends to detect some of the faintest light in the universe. Co-created by Yale astronomer Pieter van Dokkum and University of ...

Cosmic voids may seem like the emptiest places in the universe, stripped of matter, radiation, and even dark matter. But they’re far from nothing. Even in these vast empty regions, the fundamental ...

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The first time that University of Oxford astronomer Lyla Jung saw the cosmic configuration on her monitor, she almost didn’t believe it was real. But it was—and Jung and her colleagues went on to ...

Through the looking glass: In the faint distortions of distant galaxies, astronomers have glimpsed the scaffolding of the universe. A new high-resolution dark matter map, created using data from the ...

Scientists are shining a brighter light on dark matter thanks to a new high-resolution map, unveiling the invisible material that shapes everything we see. Using James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) ...

Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have been able to compile the most detailed map of dark matter ever produced, exposing the ghostly scaffolding that has guided the growth of ...

Using observations from the James Webb Space Telescope in a patch of the sky covering almost three times the area of the full moon, scientists have created the most detailed cosmic map to date of the ...