dark matter

Australia has opened one of only a handful of labs across the globe with the capacity to detect mysterious dark matter, something that has never been seen and is little ...

A strange "mirror image" galaxy cluster in deep space, sighted billions of light-years away, was discovered a few ...

Supermassive black holes are exotic astrophysical objects harbored at the centers of galaxies. Their masses can reach 1 ...

Scientists have discovered that a small galaxy called Tucana II has a much stronger gravitational pull than expected, ...

A laboratory one kilometre below ground in regional Victoria is set to become the southern hemisphere's epicentre for ...

The universe is expanding 9 percent more quickly than expected, telling us there's something we're missing. Could it ...

A plethora of missing matter problems besieges astronomy.

The dinosaur extinction 66m years ago was most likely caused by a comet or big asteroid hitting the ...

By measuring the mass of a nearby dwarf galaxy called Triangulum II, researchers may have found the highest ...

The humble neutrino particle won its fourth Nobel Prize in physics this year (also in 2002, 1995 and ...

Long before we had the atomic theory of matter, scientists knew the air was real, even though it ...

Only about 5% of the universe consists of ordinary matter such as protons and electrons, with the rest ...

Astronomers have discovered a giant swirling disk of gas 10 billion light-years away—a galaxy-in-the-making that is actively being ...

After two-years of upgrades and repairs, the Large Hadron Collider is back in the particle-smashing business—this time at ...

The nature of dark energy is one of the most important unsolved problems in all of science. But ...

Astronomers have found evidence of a giant void that could be the largest known structure in the universe.

Dark matter is the most common stuff in the universe. Now, studies are beginning to shed some light ...

We can map it, weigh it and simulate it, yet we still have no idea what it is. ...

A newly discovered dwarf galaxy orbiting the Milky Way appears to be radiating gamma rays—a sign that dark ...

The Earth's infrequent but predictable path around and through our galaxy's disc may have a direct and significant ...

Researchers at Kavli IPMU and their collaborators have revealed that considering environmental effects such as a gravitational tidal ...

For the first time, a mission designed to set its eyes on black holes and other objects far ...

While invisible, dark matter completely dominates our Milky Way. But recent measurements of just how much dark matter ...

Space may seem calm, but it is a more hostile environment than that on Earth. Invisible radiation is ...

Did dark matter kill the dinosaurs? Recent work by Harvard physicists may have us reevaluating the mysterious substance ...

Could aliens be shrouded by dark matter and the event horizon of black holes? Astronomers understand particularly little ...

Katherine Mack, astrophysicist at the University of Melbourne, answered questions posed by the public on Reddit from black ...