The structure is nearly 600 million light-years from Earth and is an early display of the nascent dark matter telescope's ...

US Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera has captured imagery of barred spiral galaxy NGC 1512 and its neighbor ...

An Einstein ring is light from a much more distant galaxy that bends in such a way as to perfectly encircle a closer object, in this case, a well-known galaxy in the constellation Draco.

An international team of researchers has found dark matter dominating the halos of two supermassive black holes in galaxies ...

This was the birth of our modern universe of galaxies, so poetically celebrated in Seeing in the Dark. Today, astronomers have measured the distance to the Andromeda Galaxy much more precisely ...

While confirming a dark galaxy is challenging, there are several candidates that meet the criteria. Moreover, there are galaxies that, while not entirely dark, come close to that definition due to ...

Pinwheel Galaxy. Its swirling spiral arms display a high rate of star formation and host six detected supernovae. This image was captured with the Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy ...

but it requires a dark sky and dark-adapting your eyes for about 10-20 minutes. Galaxy-gaze in the week before the new moon, when post-sunset skies are darkest, which means July 28-August 7 ...