From degeneracy to galactic archaeology, white dwarfs are helping scientists make sense of some of the universe's burning mysteries.

For a generation, cosmologists have worked with a simple story: the universe is not only expanding, it is expanding faster ...

This image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, containing nearly 800,000 galaxies, is overlaid with a map of dark matter, ...

Hubble’s images don’t just look beautiful — they reveal galaxies in the middle of violent transformation. From collisions and mergers to tidal stretching and starburst explosions, the universe is ...

The invisible stuff makes up about 85 percent of all matter in the universe, but researchers know little about it ...

Scientists analyzed more than 100 million image cutouts from a Hubble Space Telescope archive and found hundreds of ...

Using a brand new data analysis tool, astronomers identified more than 800 strange and previously undocumented space objects.

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

Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have been able to compile the most detailed map of dark matter ...

Weak gravitational lensing, the bending of light from distant galaxies by intervening mass, remains one of the most direct ...

With the Webb telescope’s unprecedented sensitivity, scientists are learning more about dark matter’s influence on stars, ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope created a detailed dark matter map of the COSMOS region, showing alignment with visible ...