A new computational breakthrough is giving scientists a clearer view into how dark matter structures evolve. Dark matter has ...

The Milky Way is not the neat, flat pinwheel many of us learned about in school. Fresh data from precision star maps now show ...

Could the universe’s most elusive substance finally have given away its presence? Nearly a century after the first indirect hints, a new analysis of data from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Robert Lea (created with Canva) A perplexing "break" in a stream of stars around the ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A dark matter halo with a galaxy at its heart. It's possible, however, that not all dark matter ...

The Milky Way is often depicted as a flat, spinning disk of dust, gas, and stars. But if you could zoom out and take an edge-on photo, it actually has a distinctive warp — as if you tried to twist and ...

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 ...

Explore the debate surrounding a potential dark matter discovery, highlighting skepticism and the need for rigorous ...

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 ...

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Although astronomers only slowly came to realize dark matter’s importance in the universe, for me personally it happened in an instant. In my first project as a postdoc at the University of California ...