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

A team of researchers says black holes may serve as the perfect test bed for finding dark matter. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

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

One of those ground-based telescopes is the Rubin Observatory, named after famed astronomer Vera Rubin. Unlike other ...

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

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

The century-old mystery of dark matter — the invisible glue thought to hold galaxies together — just got a modern clue.

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 ...

Scientists may have made an "out of this world" discovery. New research suggests that a mysterious glow in our galaxy might be caused by dark matter, an invisible form of matter believed to be five ...

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

Despite it’s comparative size to our star, it’s still the least massive object ever detected using gravitational lensing.

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