The mysterious substance that binds galaxies together could naturally be "in tune" with a hidden fifth dimension, according ...

The Big Bang may not mark the absolute beginning of everything. A controversial cosmological model instead treats it as a boundary, with our universe on one side and a time-reversed anti-universe on ...

Two experiments designed to detect signals directly found no evidence for the signal reported by an earlier experiment.

Roughly 80 percent of the mass of the universe appears to be dark matter: an invisible material that seems to interact with ...

For decades, dark matter has been treated as the unseen framework around which galaxies take shape. Even the smallest ...

Astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian have proposed a new explanation for some of the universe's most puzzling early galaxies, nicknamed "little red dots." In the study, ...

Possible interactions between dark matter and neutrinos may help explain a persistent mismatch in how cosmic structure evolved.

Dark centre? A simulated version of the Milky Way galaxy. (Courtesy: AIP/ A. Khalatyan) Astronomers have long puzzled over the cause of a mysterious “glow” of very high energy gamma radiation ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. map of dark matter Thanks to gravity, at least we're aware dark matter exists. We also know it's eerily abundant, accounting for ...

Researchers have been looking at everything, including supernovas, trying to uncover the mysteries of dark matter. Recent scientific studies suggest that dark matter might not be a particle hiding in ...

A new kind of dark matter could help explain some of the universe’s mysteries, a new study suggests. The study proposes that there are dense clumps of “self-interacting dark matter”, or SIDM, each ...