The Hubble Space Telescope has been used to study NGC 1052-DF2 — a galaxy that is lacking dark matter. Credit: NASA's Goddard ...

As a physics major, I didn’t have much experience with electronics,” said Spinola Castro. “However, over the course of the summer I realized how much I really liked building these things and ...

Does dark matter follow the same laws as ordinary matter? The mystery of this invisible and hypothetical component of our ...

A new international study has provided one of the clearest signs yet that dark matter—not a change in gravity—is responsible for the mysterious way galaxies spin. By studying some of the smallest and ...

One of those ground-based telescopes is the Rubin Observatory, named after famed astronomer Vera Rubin. Unlike other ...

Study finds dark matter may follow the same laws as ordinary matter on cosmic scales, though unknown forces could still be at play in this abundant, unseen substance.

The Big Bang theory has dominated our understanding of the universe’s origin for almost 100 years. It describes a moment when ...

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

Scientists at Tel Aviv University have developed a new way to investigate dark matter by studying faint radio waves from the Universe’s earliest era, known as the cosmic dark ages. Their research ...

A class of University of Texas astronomy students has discovered that nearby dwarf galaxy Segue-1 seems to host a ...

Very early dark energy (vEDE) may have accelerated the universe’s expansion just 380,000 years after the Big Bang, new ...

One of the Milky Way’s smallest galactic neighbours seems to have a supermassive black hole at its centre, upending ...