A groundbreaking new study, recently published on arXiv, challenges one of the most fundamental assumptions in cosmology: that dark matter remains constant over time. For decades, scientists have ...

"Dark matter started its life as near-massless relativistic particles, almost like light," says Robert Caldwell, a professor of physics and astronomy and the paper's senior author.

We may already have had our first-ever encounter with dark matter, according to researchers who say a mysteriously high-energy particle detected in 2023 is not a neutrino after all, but something ...

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 star called a dark dwarf—and that these ...

It's another step on the road to one day discovering what dark matter could be. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has produced a new image of the Bullet Cluster, which is a titanic ...

Dark stars were first suggested in 2007, but now observations with the James Webb Space Telescope hint that we may have actually found some of these unusual cosmic objects ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The universe has two kinds of matter. There is invisible dark matter, known only because of its gravitational effects on a grand scale. Scientists estimate that ordinary ...

As the Vera C. Rubin Observatory surveys the night sky, astrophysicists expect to unlock the secrets of dark matter, dark energy and cosmic phenomena that go “bang!” As the Vera C. Rubin ...

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A study by Dartmouth researchers proposes a new theory about the origin of dark matter, the mysterious and invisible substance thought to give the universe its shape and structure. They say the ...