Dark matter remains one of science's deepest mysteries. It makes up about 25% of our universe, yet scientists only observe ...

Celestial objects known as dark dwarfs may be hiding at the center of our galaxy and could offer key clues to uncover the ...

A team led by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics discovered the most distant known fossil galaxy — a relic of ...

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 ...

Dark matter in dwarf galaxy tracked using stellar motions Date: July 11, 2024 Source: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Summary: The qualities and behavior of dark matter, the invisible 'glue' of ...

Shown here, NGC 7773 is a beautiful example of a barred spiral galaxy. Credit: NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope A fuzzy form of dark matter may clump up to become the cores of galaxies, according ...

Astronomer Pieter van Dokkum and colleagues wanted to know more about how these huge, star sparse structures worked, but detailed observations of this galaxy recently published in Nature were odd.

Galaxy DF2 is likely closer and has more dark matter than initially inferred, DF4 may not be closer but has virtually no dark matter either way. ESA/Hubble, NASA, Digitized Sky Survey 2 ...

Interior art for "Star Wars: Dark Droids #1." (Image credit: Marvel Comics) Here's the official synopsis: In "Dark Droids," a mysterious new threat called the Scourge corrupts droids, cyborgs, and ...