An international collaboration of scientists from Durham University in the UK, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and École ...

For decades, researchers have hoped to demystify what's known as dark matter, a material that comprises just over a quarter ...

In popular science, dark matter is a hotly discussed topic. With various theories regarding its existence and interaction with regular matter, many scientists agree that these are some questions that ...

Scientists may be one step closer to unlocking one of the great mysteries of the universe after calculating that neutron stars might hold a key to helping us understand elusive dark matter. Scientists ...

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A newly discovered dwarf galaxy orbiting our own Milky Way has offered up a surprise it appears to be radiating gamma rays, according to an analysis by physicists at Carnegie Mellon, Brown and ...

A new theory claims dark matter and dark energy don’t exist — they’re just side effects of the universe’s changing forces. By rethinking gravity and cosmic timelines, it could rewrite our ...

Few things in the universe are as perplexing as dark matter — the invisible and exotic “stuff” that is thought to make up most of the matter in galaxies. The theory goes like this: To reconcile our ...

Asteroid 2010 TK7 is circled in green, in this single frame taken by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. The majority of the other dots are stars or galaxies far beyond our solar ...

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