Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers constructed the highest-resolution map of dark matter to date. This ...

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument has completed its five-year mission to build the most comprehensive 3D map of the ...

That light is then fed into spectrographs that split it into its component colors, allowing scientists to calculate how far ...

Every single tiny point on the map is a galaxy.

Dark matter is one of the universe’s most enduring mysteries. Its existence can be intuited by how it affects gravity, and yet no one knows exactly what it is, even though it makes up 27 percent of ...

Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument completes five-year survey of 47 million galaxies ...

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, or DESI, has finished its planned 3D map of the universe — but the work is far from over. Carnegie Mellon University researchers are already pushing the ...

Researchers from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, the University of Tokyo and other institutions have begun a wide-area survey of the distribution of dark matter in the universe using ...

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope took advantage of a giant cosmic magnifying glass to create one of the sharpest and most detailed maps of dark matter in the universe. Dark matter is an ...