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

Dark matter doesn't absorb or give off light so scientists can't study it directly. But they can observe how its gravity ...

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

Scientists have created the highest resolution map of the dark matter that threads through the universe—showing its influence ...

Scientists have made a new calculation of the speed at which the universe is expanding, using the data taken by the powerful new James Webb Space Telescope on multiple galaxies. Webb’s image of one ...

We now have direct images of two supermassive black holes: M87* and Sag A*. The fact that we can capture such images is ...

Just how big would a telescope need to be to actually see an alien world in detail? The James Webb Telescope just took a photo of a newly discovered exoplanet. Exciting stuff but the raw image just ...

I have been writing about the Giant Magellan Telescope for a long time. Nearly two decades ago, for example, I wrote that ...

Radio telescopes let you study the universe by collecting faint radio waves from distant objects. To see extremely small ...

A new device uses quantum optics to filter out starlight in real time — bringing scientists closer to directly observing Earth-like worlds. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...