"No existing galaxy formation model within our standard cosmological paradigm can currently explain how this galaxy came to ...

"The new model can account for both structure formation and stability, and the key observational properties of the expansion ...

The detection of dark matter, the elusive type of matter predicted to make up most of the universe's mass, is a long-standing ...

The CMZ spans almost 700 light years and contains some of the most dense molecular gas in the galaxy. Over the years, ...

Mysterious dark matter makes up 85 percent of matter in the universe, and of the remaining 15 percent, scientists couldn’t ...

A groundbreaking theory suggests that dark matter—the invisible material shaping galaxies—may have formed before the Big Bang ...

Scientists have designed a 'cosmic radio' detector which could discover dark matter in 15 years. Published today in Nature, scientists at King's College London, Harvard University, UC Berkley and ...

An extremely bold hypothesis proposes transient temporal singularities remove the need for dark matter and dark energy.

Astronomers have long struggled with a troubling puzzle: a significant portion of normal matter in the universe appeared to ...

In the vast universe, galaxies rotate in ways that don’t make sense if only visible matter is considered. For almost a ...

If dark matter is creating positrons in the CMZ, those particles will eventually slow down and eventually annihilate with electrons in the environment, producing gamma-rays at exactly 511keV energy.

A dark matter halo with a galaxy at its heart. It's possible, however, that not all dark matter haloes could packed with stellar fillings. | Credit: Robert Lea (created with Canva) For some time ...