"Dark matter could be captured by stars and accumulate inside them. If that happens, it might also interact with itself and ...

Brown dwarfs are too small to sustain the nuclear fusion that powers most stars, so they cool and fade over time. But if they ...

By studying what makes the Milky Way unique, astronomers are hoping to understand our galaxy’s past and unravel the mystery ...

A new kind of cosmic object could help solve one of the universe's greatest mysteries: dark matter.Particle Astrophysicists have proposed the ...

A USC-led research team has created a series of supercomputer-simulated twins of our Milky Way galaxy—which could help scientists unlock new answers about one of the biggest mysteries in the ...

Don’t call them Duergar—they’re dark dwarfs. A new study published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (JCAP) proposes that the core of our galaxy is full of an all-new category of ...

Astronomers have studied the globular cluster 47 Tucanae extensively, but still have many questions. It may have an ...

Created as a tribute to dark matter pioneer Vera Rubin, the image was created with the aid of a vast array of telescopes.

Cozmic’s Milky Way clones are cracking the universe’s dark code Until now, scientists could not study how galaxies are born and evolve in a universe where dark and normal matter interact. The ...

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

But axions were pushed aside as the WIMPs hypothesis gained more steam. Back-of-the-envelope calculations showed that the ...