A gamma ray glow at our galaxy’s center has puzzled scientists for almost two decades. New computer simulations back the ...

A new research effort involving simulations of Milky-Way-like galaxies shows that the mysterious, unexplained extra gamma ...

Does dark matter follow the same laws as ordinary matter? The mystery of this invisible and hypothetical component of our ...

Scientists at Tel Aviv University have developed a new way to investigate dark matter by studying faint radio waves from the Universe’s earliest era, known as the cosmic dark ages. Their research ...

A class of University of Texas astronomy students has discovered that nearby dwarf galaxy Segue-1 seems to host a ...

A new study suggests the Milky Way’s gamma-ray glow could be a dark matter signal shaped by ancient galactic mergers.

According to the model, dark matter may have started as particles that were hot, light, massless, and fast. As the universe cooled, these particles became heavy, slow, and dark, becoming an invisible ...

The Rubin Observatory is located on Cerro Pachón in the Andes Mountains in Chile.

At the heart of the Milky Way, a faint and widespread glow of gamma rays has puzzled astronomers for decades. The light could ...

"It's possible we will see the new data and confirm one theory over the other — or maybe we'll find nothing, in which case it ...

An unexpected monster black hole was found hiding inside one of the Milky Way's tiniest neighbors, rewriting what scientists ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has been used to study NGC 1052-DF2 — a galaxy that is lacking dark matter. Credit: NASA's Goddard ...