Cosmic web Created using data from the JWST, this map shows how dark matter acts as the hidden framework on which visible ...
Published in Nature Astronomy, the study details how Webb's infrared instruments charted nearly 800,000 galaxies in the COSMOS field. The data reveal how dark matter – ...
Using observations from the James Webb Space Telescope in a patch of the sky covering almost three times the area of the full ...
The observed near flatness of galactic rotation curves has long been interpreted as evidence for large amounts of non-baryonic dark matter. Here we show that this phenom ...
Editor’s note: The sky events are taking place on Saturday. The article has been corrected. The sky is off to a great start for 2026 as Saturday holds four sky events for stargazers in the D.C. area, ...
An illustration of a young solar system immersed in high-energy cosmic rays from a nearby supernova. Unlike considering only direct injection of supernova ejecta, this process naturally explains key ...
This artist’s concept shows the sequence of events leading up to the creation of dust cloud cs2 around the star Fomalhaut. In Panel 1, the star Fomalhaut appears in the top left corner. Two white dots ...
Astronomers may have discovered a never-before-seen cosmic explosion that effectively combines a supernova with a kilonova—the blast that results when two dead, dense stars collide. When massive stars ...