Researchers have found that there's something highly unusual about the Milky Way, setting it apart from other galaxies. As ...

According to Freese and Winkler, however, a Dark Big Bang is consistent with the evidence for dark matter – as long as it ...

Astronomers have discovered a group of dwarf galaxies with distinct features that challenge predictions made by the ...

After almost a century of speculation, proposals and searches for dark matter, physicists now know that it currently ...

Dark matter has always been one of the biggest mysteries in astrophysics. The "Dark Big Bang" theory may have the answer.

"Studying the rate at which galaxies formed lets us directly test our theories and, so far, we’re lining up with what general ...

How do you weigh one of the largest objects in the entire universe? Very carefully, according to new research.

The nature of dark matter has puzzled astronomers since discovering that 85% of the universe's matter is invisible through ...

For decades, scientists have used the Milky Way as a model for understanding how galaxies form. But three new studies raise ...

Data collected by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is in conflict with predictions based on the hypothesis of dark matter ...

Our best view yet of the material linking clusters of galaxies may have pinpointed some 20 percent of the universe’s missing ...

Nov. 12, 2024 — The standard model for how galaxies formed in the early ... 2024 — Researchers have strengthened the case that matter becomes dark energy when massive stars collapse and ...