Dark matter is one of nature's most confounding mysteries. It keeps particle physicists up at night and cosmologists glued to ...

There may be many more satellite galaxies in the Milky Way than have been observed, according to new Durham University ...

One of the main objectives of the Hubble Space Telescope, launched in 1990, was to measure the size and age of the Universe, ...

New simulations suggest that dozens of ultra-faint “ghost” galaxies may be orbiting the Milky Way, hidden from current ...

New research suggests sub-stellar objects called dark dwarfs could glow forever on dark matter energy. Could they reveal secrets about the universe’s hidden mass?

Tony Tyson’s cameras revealed the universe’s dark contents. Now, with the Rubin Observatory’s 3.2-billion-pixel camera, he’s ...

Lead researcher Dr. Isabel Santos-Santos said, “We know of about 60 companion galaxies around the Milky Way, but we think ...

The Milky Way could have many more satellite galaxies than scientists have previously been able to predict or observe, ...

Some faint stars may not burn with fusion but with dark matter itself. These "dark dwarfs" could be the long-awaited clue to ...

Brown dwarfs are too small to sustain the nuclear fusion that powers most stars, so they cool and fade over time. But if they ...

According to a provocative new study, that might just be our cosmic address. This idea is meant to solve one of the biggest ...

“These objects collect the dark matter that helps them become a dark dwarf. The more dark matter you have around, the more ...