Astronomers have uncovered the most promising evidence yet for the existence of dark stars—giant cosmic objects powered by ...

Deep in the center of our galaxy, scientists believe a strange type of star may be quietly glowing—not from fusion like our ...

Dark matter makes up 85% of the universe, but researchers, including Vera Rubin herself, historically have had a hard time ...

Bechtol and his fellow scientists hope they can learn more about the universe than all of scientific progress has allowed in ...

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

Scientists think they found evidence of weird ancient stars called "dark stars" that are powered by dark matter instead of ...

In a chilled lab where temperatures drop close to absolute zero, a speck of magnet hovers in place. This tiny magnet, ...

This unprecedented view of the Bullet Cluster provided by the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory ...

Because it doesn't interreact with light or electromagnetism, dark matter exists to us only through its influence on visible ...

By studying what makes the Milky Way unique, astronomers are hoping to understand our galaxy’s past and unravel the mystery ...

Scientists are using trapped ions in cutting-edge experiments to hunt for signs of an undiscovered particle that might help ...

Two studies fill in gaps about the cosmos’s ordinary matter. One maps it all, even the “missing matter.” The other details one of its hiding spots.