At the center of our galaxy, something incredibly heavy is pulling the strings. Stars ...

New research using a space-time phenomenon predicted by Einstein presents evidence that the invisible backbone of the ...

According to general relativity, gravity is the distortion of spacetime. Heavyweight cosmic entities like stars or galaxies ...

There's no denying that something massive lurks at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy, but a new study asks whether a ...

Dark matter is a type of matter that is predicted to make up most of the matter in the universe, yet it is very difficult to ...

The sharpest dark matter map ever reveals the invisible cosmic scaffolding that built galaxies, stars, and ultimately life itself.

Like going to the eye doctor for a better pair of specs, astrophysicists are getting some upgraded lenses — both humanmade and natural — for a closer look at dark matter. An international team of ...

In the vast universe, galaxies rotate in ways that don’t make sense if only visible matter is considered. For almost a century, scientists have tried to explain this by searching for a hidden force ...

Published in Nature Astronomy, the new map uses fresh observations by the James Webb Space Telescope, aimed at a well-studied patch of sky known as the COSMOS field. Using Webb’s crisp images, the ...

Scientists do not know what dark matter is made of but they believe it leaves signals, and those signals could be captured by quantum devices.

Astronomers have uncovered what looks like the sharpest evidence so far that a dense clump of dark matter is lurking ...

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will conduct a wide-area survey to study dark matter, dark energy, and the expansion of the universe across 11 billion light-years.