The distribution of normal matter precisely determines gravitational acceleration in all common types of galaxies, a team led by Case Western Reserve University researchers reports. The team has shown ...

The James Webb Space Telescope’s first picture released to the public showed off thousands of galaxies. At first glance, the pinpoints of light shining in the blackness of space look like little stars ...

A large survey, made with ESO’s VLT, has shed light on our Galaxy’s ancestry. After determining the chemical composition of over 2000 stars in the four nearest dwarf galaxies to our own, astronomers ...

Conventional wisdom holds that in the early universe, pools of dark matter—specifically, “cold” dark matter, a type of dark matter composed of sluggish, slow-moving particles—attracted gas that gave ...