A galaxy made almost entirely of dark matter, an elusive form of matter that doesn’t interact with light, was spotted by Hubble 250 million light-years from Earth.

Last year, our most detailed map of the universe yet suggested our understanding of dark energy has been wrong for decades. The shock result is reigniting the search for a better cosmic story ...

A particular kind of dark matter can explain multiple mysterious signals coming from the centre of our galaxy. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope ...

One third of the galaxy’s entire stellar output is locked away in just a few dense balls of stars. The rest is just a thin, cold “field” of stars barely clinging to existence. It is, for all intents ...

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are helping to pave a path for the eventual discovery of dark matter. With new approaches to measurement in the quantum realm, ...

Astronomers have identified an extraordinary galaxy composed almost entirely of dark matter. According to the journal Science, the discovery was made during the analysis of archival images from the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artistic representation of the Milky Way, where the innermost stars move at near relativistic speeds (defined as velocities that ...

New research suggests that the heart of the Milky Way may be dominated by a dense clump of dark matter rather than the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*.

About 85 percent of the matter in the universe is thought to be dark matter, yet there is still no confirmed direct detection of any dark matter particle. Ground-based detectors, space-based ...

A supercharged neutrino that smashed into our planet in 2023 may have been spit out by an exploding primordial black hole with a "dark charge." If true, this theory could lead to a definitive catalog ...