A professor at the University of Cincinnati and his colleagues have figured out something two of America's most famous ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is starting to turn a long‑standing cosmic mystery into something that looks almost tangible.

A mysterious excess of far-ultraviolet light seen across the Milky Way could come from the annihilation of clumpy dark matter ...

The universe has no shortage of mysteries, many of which have puzzled us for ages. One of the biggest is the existence of something called dark matter. First theorized in 1933 by Fritz Zwicky, dark ...

Only a small part of the universe consists of visible matter. By far the largest part is invisible and consists of dark matter and dark energy. Very little is known about dark energy, but there are ...

Gravitational waves from black holes may soon reveal where dark matter is hiding. A new model shows how dark matter surrounding massive black holes leaves detectable fingerprints in the waves recorded ...

Computer simulations by astronomers support the idea that dark matter -- matter that no one has yet directly detected but which many physicists think must be there to explain several aspects of the ...

Most of the matter in the universe may be made out of particles that possess an unusual, donut-shaped electromagnetic field called an anapole. This proposal, which endows dark matter particles with a ...

There was an excellent live podcast with Rajendra Gupta, Brian Keating and several others a couple days ago discussing current data and findings. Its interesting as Gupta proposed a new paradigm that ...

According to the prevailing “cold dark matter” theory of the evolution of the universe, every galaxy is surrounded by a halo of dark matter that can only be detected indirectly by observing its ...

Scientists still struggle to understand consciousness, aging, memory formation and why humans hiccup or yawn, revealing a ...