A strange, never-before-seen glow in the halo of our galaxy may be the strongest dark-matter breadcrumb yet. A new analysis of 15 years' worth of data from the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope reveals ...

A strange gamma-ray glow emanating from the heart of the Milky Way could be the long-sought fingerprint of dark matter particles annihilating each other, evidence suggests. A new research effort ...

Our Milky Way galaxy may not have a supermassive black hole at its center but rather an enormous clump of mysterious dark ...

For nearly a century, something unseen has tugged at the cosmos. In the 1930s, Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky noticed galaxies in the Coma Cluster moving as if they carried far more mass than ...

For nearly a century, scientists have been searching for direct evidence of dark matter—one of the key missing pieces of our theoretical understanding of the universe. While we have glimpsed the ...

A mysterious glow at the center of the Milky Way has puzzled astronomers for more than a decade. New research offers an explanation that could also reshape what we know about dark matter. When you ...

Astronomers say they may have finally spotted a long‑sought signal from dark matter, the invisible substance that outweighs everything we can see in the cosmos. If the claim holds up, it would mark ...

Gamma-ray intensity map excluding components other than the halo, spanning approximately 100 degrees in the direction of the Galactic center. The horizontal gray bar in the central region corresponds ...

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