Scientists think they found evidence of weird ancient stars called "dark stars" that are powered by dark matter instead of ...

NASA’s SPHEREx mission is mapping the entire sky in 102 infrared colors, turning raw space data into a public tool for ...

By studying what makes the Milky Way unique, astronomers are hoping to understand our galaxy’s past and unravel the mystery ...

Researchers have created digital copies of our galaxy, the Milky Way, to better understand one of the Universe's greatest mysteries: dark matter. These virtual twins are the result of the ...

A previously unexplored globular cluster glitters with multicolored stars in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. Globular ...

World's largest digital camera observes cosmos, capturing detailed images of galaxies, asteroids, and stars changing ...

Scientists are using trapped ions in cutting-edge experiments to hunt for signs of an undiscovered particle that might help ...

Two studies fill in gaps about the cosmos’s ordinary matter. One maps it all, even the “missing matter.” The other details one of its hiding spots.

New observations support the idea that hot, diffuse threads of gas called cosmic filaments connect clusters of galaxies ...

The world’s largest digital camera has revealed its first images. The size of a small car, the Legacy Survey of Space and ...

A vast filament of gas stretching across the cosmos may help solve the mystery of the Universe’s missing matter. Astronomers ...

The camera already captured millions of galaxies and stars, as well as thousands of asteroids in initial test observations.