WASHINGTON, Jan 30 (Reuters) - Observations by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory are providing ...

"The knowledge of these will ultimately help us understand the formation of the first stars and planets and how our own Milky ...

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

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

RIT Associate Professor Jeyhan Kartaltepe co-authors paper led by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory revealing new details about dark matter.

Mysterious blasts of radio waves from across the universe called fast radio bursts help astronomers catalog matter. ESO/M. Kornmesser, CC BY-SA If you look across space with a telescope, you’ll see ...

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

A radical new theory regarding the origin of the universe suggests that gravitational waves, tiny ripples in spacetime first predicted by Albert Einstein back in 1915, could have given rise to cosmic ...

Look up at the sky on a clear night, and you’ll see thousands of stars – about 6,000 or so. But that’s only a tiny fraction of all the stars out there. The rest are too far away for us to see them.

When my colleagues and I send them out to explore our solar system, it's important for us to understand the 3D map of our ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Chris Impey, University of Arizona (THE CONVERSATION) If you look across space with a ...