"WIMPs are still the leading candidate for dark matter, but billions of dollars of experiments have been done, only getting ...

New research puts forward compelling new evidence that dark matter interacts with cosmic "ghost particles" called neutrinos.

A strange, starless cloud on the edge of a nearby galaxy is forcing astronomers to confront one of the biggest unknowns in ...

A new computational breakthrough is giving scientists a clearer view into how dark matter structures evolve. Dark matter has ...

Astronomers have chased hypervelocity stars for more than a century. These rare objects move so fast that the Milky Way ...

Hubble has revealed a strange cosmic object called Cloud-9, a dark matter–dominated cloud with no stars at all. Scientists ...

When it comes to understanding the universe, what we know is only a sliver of the whole picture.

Cloud-9 entered the picture in 2023, when astronomers using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) in ...

Scientists are a step closer to solving one of the universe's biggest mysteries as new research finds evidence that two of ...

Researchers using new simulations suggest that the Milky Way’s past collisions may have reshaped its dark matter core. This distorted structure could naturally explain the puzzling gamma-ray glow long ...

Scientists have identified a strange cosmic relic called Cloud-9 — a starless, gas-filled object dominated by dark matter.