For decades, astronomers wondered why most nearby galaxies are speeding away from the Milky Way instead of being pulled in by ...

A group of astronomers led by Evuda Wempe, a graduate student from the Kaptein Institute in Groningen, discovered a giant ...

How is it that galaxies merge and collide but the universe is expanding and everything is moving away from everything else? Justin HammersleySterling Heights, Michigan Whether or not galaxies merge ...

A team of astronomers led by researchers at the University of Groningen has identified a colossal sheet of dark matter and ...

If you’ve seen illustrations or models of the solar system, maybe you noticed that all the planets orbit the Sun in more or ...

Astronomers have spotted a galaxy so faint, it’s almost invisible — a discovery that could help illuminate one of the most ...

Most of the (dark) matter beyond the Local Group of galaxies (which includes the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy) must be ...

Astronomers have uncovered evidence that the Milky Way is not drifting through space alone but is embedded in a vast, flat structure of dark matter stretching tens of millions of light-years. The ...

Billions of stars fill our galaxy that become visible at certain times of year. And in the U.S., that time, known as "Milky ...

Please join the Lowell Center for Space Science and Technology on Thursday, March 5 at 11 a.m. for a talk by Shany Danieli on The Path to Understanding Dark Matter: Novel Observations of Low-Mass ...

Scientists traced star-forming gas clouds in a nearby lenticular galaxy, NGC 1387, offering new insight into early-type ...