"Dark matter could be captured by stars and accumulate inside them. If that happens, it might also interact with itself and ...

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

Don’t call them Duergar—they’re dark dwarfs. A new study published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (JCAP) proposes that the core of our galaxy is full of an all-new category of ...

A USC-led research team has created a series of supercomputer-simulated twins of our Milky Way galaxy—which could help scientists unlock new answers about one of the biggest mysteries in the ...

Astronomers have studied the globular cluster 47 Tucanae extensively, but still have many questions. It may have an ...

Created as a tribute to dark matter pioneer Vera Rubin, the image was created with the aid of a vast array of telescopes.

COZMIC simulator crafted detailed models of the Milky Way to investigate dark matter and how the universe might behave under different rules.

How the pioneering scientist, and namesake of an enormous new telescope, forced astronomers to rethink the universe.

Cozmic’s Milky Way clones are cracking the universe’s dark code Until now, scientists could not study how galaxies are born and evolve in a universe where dark and normal matter interact. The ...

But axions were pushed aside as the WIMPs hypothesis gained more steam. Back-of-the-envelope calculations showed that the ...

Dark matter remains one of science's deepest mysteries. It makes up about 25% of our universe, yet scientists only observe ...