Imagine a star powered not by nuclear fusion, but by one of the universe’s greatest mysteries—dark matter. Scientists have ...

New supercomputer simulations suggest the Milky Way could be surrounded by dozens more faint, undetected satellite ...

“Dark matter interacts gravitationally, so it could be captured by stars and accumulate inside them. If that happens, it might also interact with itself and annihilate, releasing energy that heats the ...

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

This evening’s viewing challenge is the planet Mercury. It is less than half a fist above the west-northwestern horizon at ...

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?

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

"Dark matter could be captured by stars and accumulate inside them. If that happens, it might also interact with itself and ...

It might be a Zen, but the statement is also the latest proposal to find the nature of dark matter. The authors think that ...