For decades, astronomers have known that galaxies are not scattered randomly through space. They cling to an enormous, mostly ...

Astronomers at the University of California, Riverside announced on May 11 that they have produced the most detailed map of ...

Somewhere beyond the light of any single galaxy, a vast architecture of gas and dark matter stretches across the observable ...

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Once dismissed as empty expanses between galaxies, cosmic voids are becoming one of the most promising tools for probing the ...

Web research team, co-lead by RIT professor Jeyhan Kartaltepe, has released the most detailed map ever of the cosmic web.

Astronomers have revealed the sharpest image ever captured of a filament in the cosmic web — the enormous hidden structure ...

We may be more in the dark about dark matter than previously thought, according to a new analysis of distant galaxy clusters.

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) ...

Dark matter is a real pain in the neck. The term dark matter itself refers to a hypothetical substance that seems to solely interact with the rest of the universe via gravity and to serve as the ...

Long before galaxies sparkled in the sky or stars took shape, invisible forces stirred in the early Universe. One of those forces—magnetism—emerged in ways scientists are only now beginning to ...