On a clear night, the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy look like close neighbors. In space, they really are.

"It highlights gravity's possible hidden complexity and invites a reevaluation of where dark matter effects originate." ...

Dark matter doesn't absorb or give off light so scientists can't study it directly. But they can observe how its gravity warps and bends the star stuff around it.

Astronomers used James Webb Space Telescope data to determine the density of the universe's most mysterious "stuff." ...

The suburbia of the Milky Way does not form a ball of matter with the center at its center. Rather, the mass around it is arranged in a wide, flattened form, which alters the sense of gravity back ...

A new high-resolution map of distant galaxies may help scientists understand the mysterious dark matter holding the universe ...

Astronomers propose that an ultra-dense clump of exotic dark matter could be masquerading as the powerful object thought to ...

Scientists have created the highest resolution map of the dark matter that threads through the universe—showing its influence on the formation of stars, galaxies and planets.

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

Findings allow scientists to learn more about dark matter’s influence on stars, galaxies, and planets ...

High-resolution images may help scientists understand the ‘gravitational scaffolding into which everything else falls and is ...

Our Milky Way galaxy may not have a supermassive black hole at its center but rather an enormous clump of mysterious dark ...