Dark matter doesn't absorb or give off light so scientists can't study it directly. But they can observe how its gravity ...

Findings allow scientists to learn more about dark matter’s influence on stars, galaxies, and planets ...

We now have direct images of two supermassive black holes: M87* and Sag A*. The fact that we can capture such images is ...

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

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

Sometimes, in order to support an idea, you first have to discredit alternative, competing ideas that could take resources away from the one you care about. In the scientific community, one of the ...

Scientists have made a new calculation of the speed at which the universe is expanding, using the data taken by the powerful new James Webb Space Telescope on multiple galaxies. Webb’s image of one ...

Just how big would a telescope need to be to actually see an alien world in detail? The James Webb Telescope just took a photo of a newly discovered exoplanet. Exciting stuff but the raw image just ...

I have been writing about the Giant Magellan Telescope for a long time. Nearly two decades ago, for example, I wrote that ...

Noah Frere will speak on “Comparing the upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Telescope to the Hubble and to the James Web Space ...

Development of the Lazuli Space Observatory space-based telescope would be led by Schmidt Sciences, which characterizes it as ...