How the pioneering scientist, and namesake of an enormous new telescope, forced astronomers to rethink the universe.

Baltimore resident Adam Reiss, a professor of astronomy and physics at Johns Hopkins and an astronomer with the Space ...

Dark matter, widely known as the universe's most mysterious stuff ... Think of this as being like the cosmic equivalent of an ice skater drawing in their arms to increase their rate of spin.

Researchers repurposed an experiment originally intended to detect gravity, which involved a floating magnet in a ...

Known for its large mass despite emitting very little light, Segue 1 is traditionally viewed as a prime candidate for studying dark matter-dominated galaxies. However, the unique investigation ...

The multinational scientific collaboration COSMOS releases the largest map of the universe, going back to almost the beginning of time ...

Black holes could serve as cheaper, natural alternatives to expensive facilities searching for dark matter and similarly ...

Dark matter is the catch-all term for about 27% of the universe that is only known to ... constant—but it wasn’t strong enough to draw firm conclusions,” Ruggeri said in The Conversation.

"What has changed is that we can now draw this conclusion more ... providing a robust limit for mixed dark matter only relying on local universe information, is a natural step forward." ...