An astronomer from the University of Nottingham has been awarded a Leverhulme Award for her research into supermassive black ...

The most difficult thing about learning the dark energy is that the dark matter does not present itself directly; it only ...

This cosmic question mark, seen in 2024, is courtesy of galaxy cluster MACS-J0417.5-1154, which is so massive that it is ...

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

Using observations from the James Webb Space Telescope in a patch of the sky covering almost three times the area of the full ...

JWST observations of galaxy cluster MACS J1149 show gravitational lensing used by CANUCS to study distant low-mass galaxies across a wide range of cosmic time.

Some galaxies in the early universe were absolute powerhouses, churning out stars at rates that would dwarf the Milky Way's ...

While human missions to the moon will be facing Earth, on the other side of the moon, completely hidden from view, there will ...

Combining observations from several powerful telescopes, astronomers have detected a gargantuan, 'wobbling' black hole ...

“As a result, for the past four decades, most researchers have believed that dark matter must be cold when it is born in the ...

Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope and gravitational lensing to observe SN Eos, an ordinary supernova from the ...

New research presented at an astronomy meeting shows that active black holes are more common in dwarf galaxies than earlier studies suggested, based on a large survey of nearby galaxies.