Euclid, the European Space Agency’s dark Universe detective, has made an astonishing discovery – right in our cosmic backyard ...

The "dark universe detective" space telescope Euclid has discovered its first Einstein ring in the process, learning about ...

For over a century, astronomers have searched the skies for a perfect example of a phenomenon predicted by Albert Einstein: a luminous halo formed by the bending of light around a massive object. Now, ...

The rest of the universe appears to be made of a mysterious, invisible substance called dark matter (25 percent) and a force that repels gravity known as dark energy (70 percent). Scientists have ...

Feb. 6, 2025 — A team of international researchers has developed an innovative approach to uncover the secrets of dark matter in the cosmos. They are searching for dark matter using atomic ...

In a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal, a team of scientists from the University of Tokyo, Peking ...

Because we haven't found anything yet, we've started to wonder if dark matter might be lighter or heavier than we thought.

Detecting dark matter, the elusive type of matter predicted to account for most of the universe's mass, has so far proved to ...

Matter in intergalactic space is not randomly scattered - it forms a vast network of filamentary structures that make up the ...

"It marks an exciting step forward in our understanding of dark matter and the dynamics of the Milky Way." A perplexing "break" in a stream of stars around the Milky Way could be the result of ...

Dark energy and dark matter refers to the unseen energy and matter components of the Universe. Dark matter is invisible, non-baryonic matter hypothesized to explain phenomena including ...

Yet despite researchers’ best efforts over decades to work out the nature of this “dark matter” – to find some clue direct or indirect as to what it’s made of, or even make it in the lab ...