Astronomers have uncovered evidence that the Milky Way is not drifting through space alone but is embedded in a vast, flat structure of dark matter stretching tens of millions of light-years. The ...

Astronomers puzzled out minuscule distortions in images of faraway galaxies taken by JWST in order to chart the invisible ...

Researchers, in a recent Physical Review Letters paper, introduce a new mechanism that may finally allow ultralight dark photons to be considered serious candidates for dark matter, with promising ...

But is the expansion of the universe really relentless, or might the cosmos be setting up for its own fiery collapse? A growing body of astrophysical evidence is suggesting that dark energy, the ...

JWST has revealed a strange early universe filled with ultra-bright “blue monster” galaxies, mysterious “little red dots,” ...

Scientists at Rutgers and collaborators have traced the invisible dark matter scaffolding of the universe using over 100,000 Lyman-alpha emitting galaxies. By studying how these galaxies clustered ...

Rossana Ruggeri is part of the DESI Collaboration. She receives funding from her ARC DECRA grant. She is affiliated with QUT and UQ. The universe has been expanding ever since the Big Bang almost 14 ...