Featuring the world’s largest digital camera, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will capture these mysterious phenomena in more ...

A stronomers using the Very Large Telescope at the European Southern Observatory in Chile have imaged a filament of the ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is set to detect millions of exploding vampire stellar remnants called "white dwarfs," shedding ...

It is thought that a whopping approximately 27 percent of the universe is made of dark matter—amounts that are measured in ...

The concept of cold dark matter and its role in structure formation in the universe is a cornerstone of the Standard Model of cosmology, "but if you find more and more evidence like this ...

All of this comes together, along with ordinary matter, to form what we call the lambda cold dark matter (ΛCDM) model. The problem is that this model uses a simplified equation that assumes the whole ...

Scientists are keen to get to the bottom of the dark matter puzzle because this phenomenon accounts for the vast majority of the "stuff" in the universe — about 85%, in fact. That means everything we ...

Cold, heavy dark matter tends to produce extremely ... This is the first step to confirming a key prediction of the fuzzy dark matter model. However, there is still a lot of work to be done.