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11 wimpy galaxies are beating up our brightest explanation yet for a deep, dark cosmic mystery
Timothy Brandt, an astrophysicist at the Institute for Advanced Study, wrote the study after he too…
Dave Mosher
Scientists have just created the best map ever of one of the most mysterious substances in the cosmos
To create the map to the right, astronomers used one of the world's most powerful digital cameras p…
Kelly Dickerson
The most detailed map yet of all dark matter in the universe reveals cosmic voids where the laws of physics seem not to apply
By imaging 226 million galaxies, astronomers have created the largest map ever of dark matter, whic…
Aylin Woodward
Something punched through a stream of stars and it could help solve a bunch of mysteries about dark matter
Dark matter is what physicists believe holds galaxies together and makes up a quarter of everything…
Lindsay Dodgson
5 ways the world's most controversial telescope could revolutionize astronomy
Once the hot soup of particles generated by the big bang started to cool, they clustered into atoms…
Kelly Dickerson
Leading Harvard physicist has a radical new theory for why humans exist
It's this similarity between the rate of mass extinction rates and the rate of our solar system's o…
Jessica Orwig
A new simulation reveals what dark matter might look like if we could see it: massive halos surrounding every galaxy in the universe
A new simulation shows that dark matter haloes look the same, whether Earth-sized or many billions …
Susie Neilson
NASA awards SpaceX a $255 million contract to launch the next space telescope, which will study dark energy and exoplanets
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will launch on SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket to observe dar…
Kate Duffy
Most of the universe may be trapped inside of ancient black holes
Astronomers call this material "dark matter." They know it's out there because its huge mass tugs o…
Dave Mosher
Scientists have made the largest map of galaxies ever - and it will shine light on one of the darkest mysteries of the universe
A slice through the map of the large-scale structure of the Universe from the Sloan Digital Sky Sur…
Ali Sundermier
Here's A Hypnotizing New Image Of A Mysterious Ancient Star Cluster
The blob of stars hold some mystery to astronomers still. While studying the cluster with Hubble in…
Jennifer Welsh
Astronomers discovered a new component of the Milky Way galaxy that they never expected to find
"All of the 35 classical Cepheids discovered are less than 100 million years old," Dante Minniti, w…
Jessica Orwig
The Hubble telescope captured a stunning photo of the distant spiral galaxy named 'Eye of the Serpent'
The world's most powerful space telescope captured an image of the NGC 2835 galaxy, known as "Eye o…
Aylin Woodward
Scientists found 63 ancient cosmic objects that could shine a light on 'one of the greatest mysteries in astronomy'
These "dark ages" of the universe lasted for hundreds of millions of years until finally, the hydro…
Ali Sundermier
This Stunning Video Maps Our Vast Universe
The region known as the Great Attractor exerts an unusually strong gravitational pull over the bodi…
Robert Ferris
Here's What We Know About Dark Matter
One theory, which based on today's findings is less likely, is that "dark matter" might not be dark…
Jennifer Welsh
Here's what the world's most powerful physics lab will be looking for when it turns back on
Such was the case during the LHC's first run from 2009 through 2012, and now, after two years of he…
Jessica Orwig
Astronomers may now fully understand why the sky is dark at night
Astronomers previously estimated that the observable universe contains about 100 billion galaxies b…