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

Named for the pioneering astrophysicist Vera C. Rubin, whose work confirmed the existence of dark matter, the Vera C. Rubin ...

Our Milky Way is far from calm — it ripples with a colossal wave spanning tens of thousands of light-years, revealed by ESA’s ...

For decades, astronomers have been vying to identify a source for a mysterious gamma-ray excess at the center of the Milky ...

Three photographers were able to capture the red sprite phenomenon, when lightning flashes above thunderstorms, in high ...

At the heart of the Milky Way, a faint and widespread glow of gamma rays has puzzled astronomers for decades. The light could ...

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

Scientists at Johns Hopkins may be closing in on dark matter’s elusive trail, uncovering a mysterious gamma ray glow at the ...

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

Scientists recreated the Milky Way’s history using supercomputers to track where dark matter should collect and collide.

By analyzing the data from the HASH database, astronomers have conducted a comprehensive study of nearly 1,500 planetary ...

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