The Universe still holds many mysteries, and among the most intriguing are these invisible components known as dark matter ...

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

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

Ask most astronomers, and they'll tell you that dark matter and dark energy make up more than 95 percent of the universe and that they are the explanations for many of the large-scale phenomena we ...

UChicago-led study analyzes massive galaxy clusters mapped by the Dark Energy Survey, offers new way to probe cosmic laws ...

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

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

Although dark matter is invisible, its various effects can still sometimes be seen—such as in this Hubble Space Telescope image of the galaxy cluster Abell 370 some four billion light-years from Earth ...

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

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope may have found the universe’s first “dark stars.” Within the first few hundred million years after the Big Bang, the universe’s earliest stars took ...

"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 ...