Gravity can exist without mass.” It’s a statement that upends a century of astrophysical dogma and, for some, sounds as ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope recently zeroed in on the Bullet Cluster—delivering highly detailed images that show a ...

The invisible dark matter is one of the universe's biggest mysteries, and its existence is confirmed only by the ...

Jee compared dark matter to crystal-clear water in a pond, with pebbles as the galaxies. “You cannot see the water unless there is wind, which causes ripples. Those ripples distort the shapes of the ...

But axions were pushed aside as the WIMPs hypothesis gained more steam. Back-of-the-envelope calculations showed that the ...

Dark matter, although not visible, is believed to make up most of the total mass of the universe. One theory suggests that ...

Dark matter is a real pain in the neck. The term dark matter itself refers to a hypothetical substance that seems to solely ...

Researchers, in a recent Physical Review Letters paper, introduce a new mechanism that may finally allow ultralight dark ...

Scientists have never directly detected dark matter, but some wonder if one high-energy detection in 2023 could be a rare ...

Despite decades of searching, scientists still haven’t found the elusive substance that holds galaxies together: dark matter.