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For astronomers studying dark matter, the Bullet Cluster is one of the greatest laboratories in the universe. Follow-up ...
A swarm of galaxies called the Bullet Cluster is the biggest, best natural laboratory for studying dark matter that ...
Harvard astronomers are proposing a new theory about the mysterious “little red dots” first spied by the James Webb Space ...
Dark matter may soon come into the grasp of researchers with the help of a state-of-the-art telescope. A team of researchers believes that the telescope could utilize a concept first presented by ...
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope recently zeroed in on the Bullet Cluster—delivering highly detailed images that show a greater abundance of extremely faint and distant galaxies than ever before.
In 1925, Edwin Hubble's observation of Cepheid variables in the Andromeda galaxy revolutionized astronomy, proving the ...
Large pieces of dark matter hitting Jupiter’s largest moon would form distinctive craters in its icy surface, and upcoming ...
"We will push the limits of what we can observe, and use every gravitational lens we detect with Roman to pin down the particle nature of dark matter." When NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope ...
Like going to the eye doctor for a better pair of specs, astrophysicists are getting some upgraded lenses — both humanmade and natural — for a closer look at dark matter. An international team of ...
An infrared view of Ganymede, captured by the Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) instrument aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/ASI/INAF ...
A rock sample collected by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover may contain evidence of ancient microbial life, preserved for ...
The discovery by the six-wheeled rover in Jezero Crater represents one of the best pieces of evidence to date about the ...