Black aurorae are a mysterious phenomena, creating dark rings, shadowy waves, and black blobs that contrast with the glowing colors of the Northern and Southern Lights. Look closely or you might ...

One could argue that cosmologists had made little progress in our understanding of these basic facts since the discovery of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the afterglow of the Big Bang, in the ...

The situation, Green says, is akin to looking for a lost set of car keys in a dark parking lot—but only where the light is bright: “When all you look under is one lamppost, you only see what ...

Dark Matter and Dark Energy. Read what astronomers are discovering about a gaping hole in the universe, how dark matter clumps contribute to galaxy formation and more. Space images.

Then we see images at specific wavelengths: 551 nanometers (blue), 831 nm (green), and 848 nm (red); note that the colors are only indicative, for display purposes. The dark spot is most prominent ...

But dark matter will bend, or lens, background light, and this is how its whereabouts was mapped by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT). Webb telescope 'fingerprints' earliest galaxies Gaia ...

Physicists have long understood very little about dark energy, a mysterious substance thought to be stretching out the cosmos. But thanks to a new two-year study from researchers in Germany and ...

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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — New hints from one of the most extensive surveys of the cosmos to date suggest that mysterious dark energy may be ...