The James Webb Space Telescope is starting to turn a long‑standing cosmic mystery into something that looks almost tangible.

The James Webb Space Telescope was built to see the first galaxies, but it is rapidly becoming something stranger: a ...

Smooth filaments stretching for many light-years, seen by the powerful space telescope, could indicate what the right "recipe" is for dark matter.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures the magnificent starry population of the Coma Cluster of galaxies, one of the densest known galaxy collections in the universe — and where the effect of dark ...

UC Santa Cruz physicist Stefano Profumo has put forward two imaginative but scientifically grounded theories that may help solve one of the biggest mysteries in physics: the origin of dark matter. In ...

Imagine a star powered not by nuclear fusion, but by one of the universe’s greatest mysteries—dark matter. Scientists have proposed the existence of “dark dwarfs,” strange glowing objects potentially ...

Dark matter and its impact on cosmology have puzzled physicists for nearly a century. At Perimeter Institute, two researchers are trying to better understand how one potential dark matter candidate, ...

When I first came across the term “neurodivergent,” after it was coined about 25 years ago by activist Kassiane Asasumasu, I didn’t realize the weight it would hold in society. The nonjudgmental label ...

A new algorithm will search images of colliding galaxy clusters for evidence of self-interacting dark matter. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

Dark matter is a real pain in the neck. The term dark matter itself refers to a hypothetical substance that seems to solely interact with the rest of the universe via gravity and to serve as the ...

Now is a surreal time to be a dark matter researcher. Even as research funding is being cut by governments around the world, dark matter remains one of the biggest and most exciting open problems in ...

In this new Apple TV+ techno-thriller, a portal to parallel realities allows people to visit new worlds and revisit their own past decisions. By Chris Vognar In the new series “Dark Matter,” a physics ...