Created as a tribute to dark matter pioneer Vera Rubin, the image was created with the aid of a vast array of telescopes.

NASA's Chandra X-ray space telescope has captured a breathtaking image of the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, in a tribute to ...

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, set to launch in 2027, would focus on possibly 160,000 gravitational lenses, of which ...

“For example, Chandra’s X-rays reveal the high-energy radiation around the supermassive black hole at the center of M31 as ...

NASA's Chandra Observatory has combined different wavelength images of the Andromeda galaxy to honor astronomer Vera Rubin, ...

The Andromeda galaxy, also known as Messier 31 (M31), is the closest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way at a distance of about ...

Inspired by superconductivity, a strange new theory that seeks to explain dark matter might explain dark energy, too ...

In a new study published in The Astrophysical Journal, the international research team estimated that “Roman” may be able to ...

While dark matter can’t be seen directly because it doesn’t give off or reflect light, its gravity can bend light from other ...

For decades, scientists have been searching for the universe's elusive "missing matter," and now they say they finally found ...

Despite its abundance, dark matter remains one of the most elusive components in cosmology. Astronomers hope that the Roman ...

Bright flashes of enigmatic radio waves have helped illuminate some of the missing matter in the universe, astronomers say in ...