Scientists have built detailed Milky Way simulations under strange new physical laws to probe dark matter, revealing how ...

COZMIC simulator crafted detailed models of the Milky Way to investigate dark matter and how the universe might behave under ...

A new study suggests they may have a ghostly shadow—trailing dark matter spirals hovering above and below them. A team of ...

Vera Rubin fundamentally advanced our knowledge of galactic dynamics, laid the groundwork for dark matter research, and ...

Astronomers have uncovered a colossal, searing-hot filament of gas linking four galaxy clusters in the Shapley Supercluster a discovery that could finally solve the mystery of the Universe s missing ...

A USC-led research team has created a series of supercomputer-simulated twins of our Milky Way galaxy—which could help scientists unlock new answers ...

How the pioneering scientist, and namesake of an enormous new telescope, forced astronomers to rethink the universe.

Both the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxies (M31) are part of what's known as the Local Group (LG), which also hosts other ...

Scientists previously predicted the pair of galaxies would merge in about five billion years. Now, research suggests that ...

A new era in space exploration has officially begun. On 23 June 2025, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile unveiled its ...

The team found only a 2 percent probability that the galaxies will collide in the next five billion years. In slightly over half of the simulated scenarios, Andromeda and the Milky Way experience at ...