The South Pole Telescope has released its most precise image yet of the universe’s first light—the cosmic microwave background. This new ground-based data confirms cosmic expansion anomalies and ...

Despite decades of searching, scientists still haven’t found the elusive substance that holds galaxies together: dark matter.

In an extraordinary leap forward for astrophysics, astronomers have achieved a momentous breakthrough with the first direct ...

Matter in intergalactic space is not randomly scattered - it forms a vast network of filamentary structures that make up the ...

We are entering a new era of cosmic exploration. The new Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile will transform astronomy with its extraordinary ability ...

Powered by the largest digital camera ever built, Rubin Observatory has taken its first images—millions of stars and galaxies ...

These cosmic filaments contain 12 trillion solar masses of 10-million-degree gas, helping solve the "missing matter" mystery.

Another clue about the whereabouts of the missing matter in the Universe has just emerged from amid the largest local cosmic structure. X-ray observations have revealed a massive filament of hot gas, ...

Their incredible interactive map, dubbed COSMOS-Web, lets you scroll through almost 800,000 galaxies and peer back as far as 13.5 billion years. That means looking back through 98 per cent of cosmic ...

The study thus opens new perspectives on galaxy formation and the history of the Universe. If these findings are confirmed, they could lead to a major revision of current cosmological theories. Future ...

More The universe's missing matter may have finally been found. Astronomers think regular matter — that is, the stuff that isn't dark matter — makes up about 15% of the universe's total mass.