A newly discovered celestial object may be a starless cloud that could change how astronomers understand dark matter.

Scientists are uncovering dark matter, the biggest secret in the universe, with new detectors built to sense what was once ...

In the early 1930s, Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky observed galaxies in space moving faster than their mass should allow, prompting him to infer the presence of some invisible scaffolding—dark ...

Like going to the eye doctor for a better pair of specs, astrophysicists are getting some upgraded lenses — both humanmade and natural — for a closer look at dark matter. An international team of ...

"If such a fifth force exists, it cannot exceed 7% of the strength of gravity." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Scientists have ...

UC Santa Cruz physicist Stefano Profumo has put forward two imaginative but scientifically grounded theories that may help solve one of the biggest mysteries in physics: the origin of dark matter. In ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures the magnificent starry population of the Coma Cluster of galaxies, one of the densest known galaxy collections in the universe — and where the effect of dark ...

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Astrophysicists are starting to treat a strange class of “undead” suns as potential tools rather than mere curiosities, ...

To dark matter and dark energy, add dark galaxies — collections of stars so sparse and faint that they are all but invisible. An artist’s depiction of hydrogen gas observed in the galaxy J0613+52, ...

Featuring the world’s largest digital camera, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will capture these mysterious phenomena in more exquisite detail than ever before. MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our ...