A mysterious object found deep in the cosmos could soon have astronomers rethinking what they know about dark matter. ...

The object was detected by observing how its gravity distorts light behind it. Astronomers have discovered an extremely faint ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope may have found the universe’s first “dark stars.” Within the first few ...

The gravitational lensing that causes this rare phenomenon cannot be explained solely by looking at observable ...

The LUX-ZEPLIN detector is breaking new ground in the hunt for dark matter, setting unprecedented limits on WIMP particles.

In a groundbreaking study published inNature Astronomy, astronomers have identified the lowest-mass dark object ever ...

This week, researchers discovered so-called "switchbacks" in Earth's magnetic field similar to observations of switchbacks in the sun's magnetic field. Scientists provided more evidence that ancient ...

Determining the nature of dark matter, the invisible substance that makes up most of the mass in our universe, is one of the ...

Astronomers have detected one of the darkest objects ever seen at a record cosmic distance—only with the assistance of ...

JWST might have spotted the 'smoking gun' of a hypothetical object called a dark star in the distant Universe.

Professor Chamkaur Ghag is driving efforts to detect weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), the prime candidates for ...

Astronomers have traced the hidden fingerprints of dark matter by observing rare, glowing galaxies that lived in the early ...