Scientists have retreated to deep beneath the French Alps to broaden the hunt for dark matter particles that could be "WIMPier than WIMPS." ...
Astronomers studying a rare Einstein Cross stumbled upon an impossible “fifth image” that shouldn’t exist — and it revealed something extraordinary. Careful analysis showed the strange light pattern ...
Astronomers have discovered a rare cosmic alignment that reveals hidden dark matter, offering a new way to study the invisible substance that makes up most of the universe. Data from the Northern ...
By listening for ghostly radio echoes from the early Universe, scientists believe future Moon missions could determine what ...
A chance configuration of objects arrayed across deep space has just revealed the hiding place of a giant glob of dark matter. Configurations like these, known as Einstein crosses, typically consist ...
Astronomers are pulling back the curtain on two of the universe’s biggest mysteries: how planets are born and how invisible matter shapes galaxies. Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and ...
UC Santa Cruz physicist Stefano Profumo has put forward two imaginative but scientifically grounded theories that may help solve one of the biggest mysteries in physics: the origin of dark matter. In ...
Astronomers say that NASA's James Webb Space Telescope may have spotted the universe's first "dark stars" that are fuelled by ...