Dark matter continues to challenge our understanding of the universe, especially as new observations reveal behaviors that defy traditional models. A recent study proposes that dark matter may consist ...

Dark matter is some kind of substance that has gravity—it holds galaxies together—yet cannot be directly seen with any instrument yet created. We know it’s out there because of the effects it has on ...

Here’s a list of sci-fi novels you can read if you liked Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary, which has now been adapted into a ...

The first time I heard about galaxies without dark matter, I was sitting in my very first graduate class at the University of São Paulo. It was 2018, and the discovery had just been announced. A team ...

NASA said CDG-2 “may be among the most heavily dark matter-dominated galaxies ever discovered” Abigail Adams is a Human Interest Writer-Reporter for PEOPLE. NASA, ESA, Dayi Li (UToronto) A new galaxy, ...

Astronomers have spotted a galaxy so faint, it’s almost invisible — a discovery that could help illuminate one of the most elusive substances in the universe. The researchers found Candidate Dark ...

At the centre of our galaxy lies a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A* – but one group of researchers is suggesting it may not be a black hole at all. The team says that it, and other black ...

What do you get when you take an alien parasite and smush it together with a human being? Would you get to become a supercharged, head-eating anti hero like Venom? Or would you die a slow and painful ...

Scientists are shining a brighter light on dark matter thanks to a new high-resolution map, unveiling the invisible material that shapes everything we see. Using James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) ...

An international group of astronomers has just sketched the sharpest map yet of something nobody can actually see. It’s a blueprint of dark matter—the invisible, ghostly mass that outweighs all the ...