Dark Matter
Astronomers Observe Blobs of Dark Matter Down to a Scale of 30,000 Light-Years Across
Dark matter remains mysterious and… well… dark. While we don't yet have a definite idea of what this cosmic "stuff"…
A New Telescope Could Detect Decaying Dark Matter in the Early Universe
A gap in astronomical knowledge is Cosmic Dawn, a time when the first stars in the Universe formed, ending the…
Evidence for Modified Gravity Found in the Motions of Binary Stars
There are two leading explanations for dark matter, massive particles that don't interact with regular matter apart from gravity and…
Astronomers Search for Dark Matter Annihilation at the Center of the Earth
If dark matter is made of heavy particles, they could become captured by the gravitational field of massive objects like…
Dark Matter Experiment Fails to Turn Up the Mysterious Particle, but Narrows its Hiding Places
So much in science is based on constraints. If scientists don't understand something, they try to constrain it as much…
Have We Seen the First Glimpse of Supermassive Dark Stars?
A recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) examines what are known as dark…
A Massive Galaxy With Almost No Dark Matter
Astronomers have found a massive galaxy that contains little to no Dark Matter, something that doesn't fit with current cosmological…
ESA's Euclid Mission is Off to Explore the Dark Universe
The Euclid space telescope, the ESA's next-generation astrophysics mission, was successfully launched to space!
Next Generation Gravitational Wave Detectors Could Pin Down Dark Matter
Gravitational astronomy is a relatively new discipline that has opened many doors for astronomers to understand how the huge and…
Dark Matter Might Interact in a Totally Unexpected Way With the Universe
A new theory of Dark Matter suggests that it interact with normal matter in a non-localized way, potentially revolutionizing our…