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

A recent astronomical observation has sparked intrigue in the scientific community. A faint glow detected in the Milky Way ...

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Researchers have believed that Segue 1, a puny galaxy orbiting the Milky Way just 75,000 light-years away, was packed with dark matter, a substance in space that doesn't shine or interact with light.

Could the Milky Way’s most enigmatic light be the death cry of invisible matter? For over a decade, an explanation has eluded ...

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

Astronomers have shed light on a decades-long debate about why galaxies rotate faster than expected, and whether this ...

Astronomers are pulling back the curtain on two of the universe’s biggest mysteries: how planets are born and how invisible matter shapes galaxies. Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and ...

Physicists chilled a sugar crystals then used them to search for dark matter. This new project is called SWEET.

Every galaxy is thought to form at the center of a dark matter halo – a region of gravitationally bound matter that extends far beyond the visible boundaries of a galaxy. Stars are formed when gravity ...

"A starless or 'dark' dark matter halo would have no galaxy at its center." For some time, scientists have pondered a peculiar question: Can galaxies exist without an outer halo of dark matter? But ...