For over a decade, a dim but persistent glow near the center of the Milky Way has confused astronomers. This mysterious ...

An excess of gamma rays in the center of our galaxy could mean scientists have finally detected dark matter particles—or not ...

Scientists may be coming closer to confirming the existence of dark matter - the invisible stuff thought to make up more than ...

The Universe still holds many mysteries, and among the most intriguing are these invisible components known as dark matter and dark energy. For decades, astronomers have estimated that ...

Astrophysicists have presumed for nearly a century that the universe will just keep expanding for all eternity, driven by an ...

For more than two decades, the standard model of cosmology has stood as a reliable guide to the universe. Known as Lambda Cold Dark Matter, or ΛCDM, it weaves together dark energy, dark matter, and ...

According to the model, dark matter may have started as particles that were hot, light, massless, and fast. As the universe ...

Dark matter is a real pain in the neck. The term dark matter itself refers to a hypothetical substance that seems to solely interact with the rest of the universe via gravity and to serve as the ...

The story begins with the black hole information paradox. According to relativity, anything that falls into a black hole is ...

The U.S. National Science Foundation Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO), a Program of NSF NOIRLab, beneath streaking star ...

"Dark matter could be captured by stars and accumulate inside them. If that happens, it might also interact with itself and annihilate, releasing energy that heats the star." "Dark dwarfs" may sound ...