Six thousand eight hundred feet below the floor of an active nickel mine in northern Ontario, something has gone extremely ...

The first time I heard about galaxies without dark matter, I was sitting in my very first graduate class at the University of São Paulo. A team had found a small, strange galaxy that appeared to ...

An international team involving Northwestern University​ announced Tuesday that it has reached a major milestone in its quest ...

The hero is regular matter, which is everything we can see around us. Antimatter is the mirror-image explosive twin that ...

Researchers suggest that dark matter might subtly color light red or blue as it passes through, revealing traces of its existence. Using a network-like model of particle connections, they argue that ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures the magnificent starry population of the Coma Cluster of galaxies, one of the densest known galaxy collections in the universe — and where the effect of dark ...

Astronomers have long been puzzled by two strange phenomena at the heart of our galaxy. First, the gas in the central molecular zone (CMZ), a dense and chaotic region near the Milky Way’s core, ...

This new map is not only the most detailed view of the universe’s invisible scaffolding to date, it also allows astronomers to look deeper into cosmic history. Reading time 3 minutes Dark matter—the ...

Shyam Balaji receives funding from the STFC under grant ST/X000753/1. He is affiliated with King's College London. Astronomers have long been puzzled by two strange phenomena at the heart of our ...