Dark matter keeps getting blamed for the universe’s big patterns while staying stubbornly out of reach. You cannot see it, touch it, or capture it.

An international team of astronomers led by researcher Chervin Laporte of the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB-IEEC) has revealed a new map of the Milky Way’s outer ...

Open clusters (OCs) are groups of stars formed from the same giant molecular cloud and loosely gravitationally bound to each other. Astronomers are interested in exploring the structures of OCs in ...

A new study suggests that dark matter may consist of particles with different masses. By introducing a two-component self-interacting dark matter model, the researchers show that both the low-density ...

Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. Open clusters (OCs) are groups of stars formed from the same giant molecular cloud and loosely gravitationally bound to each other.

The new map has revealed a new substructure of the Milky Way’s outer disc using data from the Gaia space misison. CREDIT C. Laporte et al. (MNRAS, 2021) An international team of astronomers led by ...