On a clear night, the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy look like close neighbors. In space, they really are.

A vast, flat sheet of dark matter may solve the long-standing mystery of why our neighboring galaxy Andromeda is speeding ...

A sheet of dark matter lying beyond the boundary of the Local Group is responsible for this.

Computer simulations carried out by astronomers from the University of Groningen in collaboration with researchers from ...

For years, astronomers have observed the strange motion of Andromeda, the Milky Way’s closest large galactic neighbor. While ...

Andromeda is also a flattened spiral like the Milky Way, but it's twice as large — 220,000 light-years across versus 105,000 for the Milky Way — and crammed with a trillion suns. Can you even begin to ...

A flat plane of dark matter beyond the Local Group may explain why nearby galaxies move away from us instead of falling ...

For many years, scientists have tried to understand how the Milky Way is positioned in space, and how it moves together with ...

You might think galaxies can’t ever find each other in our runaway cosmos, but it turns out gravity can sometimes overcome ...

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New research suggests that the Milky Way and our entire Local Group of galaxies are embedded in a vast sheet of dark matter, challenging traditional cosmological models.