A gamma ray glow at our galaxy’s center has puzzled scientists for almost two decades. New computer simulations back the ...

A new study suggests the Milky Way’s gamma-ray glow could be a dark matter signal shaped by ancient galactic mergers.

Dark energy and black holes are two of the most mysterious topics when it comes to space, but they might actually be linked.

This development, along with the theoretical proposition of a new type of star that could illuminate dark matter properties, ...

An international team of researchers led by the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) has shed light on a ...

The nearby dwarf galaxy Segue 1 is exceptionally faint for its mass, which has puzzled astronomers almost since its discovery. A new paper proposes this could be because it hosts a ridiculously ...

The century-old mystery of dark matter — the invisible glue thought to hold galaxies together — just got a modern clue.

An excess of gamma rays in the center of our galaxy could mean scientists have finally detected dark matter particles—or not ...

An international team of astronomers led by researchers from the Netherlands has found no trace of dark matter in the galaxy AGC 114905, despite taking detailed measurements over a course of fourty ...

For over a decade, a dim but persistent glow near the center of the Milky Way has confused astronomers. This mysterious ...

Astronomers have shed light on a decades-long debate about why galaxies rotate faster than expected, and whether this ...

New research shows that dark matter has a different distribution in our galaxy than previously thought, and that advances ...