For nearly a century, astronomers have watched galaxies spin and the universe expand in ways that visible matter alone cannot ...

Astronomers have uncovered evidence that the Milky Way is not drifting through space alone but is embedded in a vast, flat structure of dark matter stretching tens of millions of light-years. The ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Simulations suggest cosmic webs, made of filaments of dark matter, stretch throughout the galaxy.

Astronomers puzzled out minuscule distortions in images of faraway galaxies taken by JWST in order to chart the invisible ...

Researchers, in a recent Physical Review Letters paper, introduce a new mechanism that may finally allow ultralight dark photons to be considered serious candidates for dark matter, with promising ...

JWST has revealed a strange early universe filled with ultra-bright “blue monster” galaxies, mysterious “little red dots,” ...

A cosmological simulation study by researchers from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has systematically revealed, for the first time, how the interaction ...

"Dark matter can be red hot when it is born, but still have time to cool down before galaxies begin to form." ...

The investigation of cosmic rays and their potential connection with dark matter occupies a central role in contemporary astrophysics. Recent experimental and theoretical advances have refined our ...