Dark stars were first suggested in 2007, but now observations with the James Webb Space Telescope hint that we may have ...

Because it doesn't interreact with light or electromagnetism, dark matter exists to us only through its influence on visible ...

Priyamvada Natarajan has spent decades exploring some of the universe’s most persistent mysteries, particularly the unseen ...

Scientists believe that we could have black holes in our homes and not even realise it after studying the giant, destructive forces. Black holes are things that you wouldn’t want to get close to as ...

The universe seems to be spinning, and that could explain what dark energy is and why it's weakening while revealing our ...

A new census reveals that 35% of supermassive black holes are hidden behind dust, disrupting major galactic models.

Everything in space – from the Earth and Sun to black holes – accounts for just 15% of all matter in the universe . The rest ...

A vast filament of gas stretching across the cosmos may help solve the mystery of the Universe’s missing matter. Astronomers ...

Two studies fill in gaps about the cosmos’s ordinary matter. One maps it all, even the “missing matter.” The other details one of its hiding spots.

Despite decades of searching, scientists still haven’t found the elusive substance that holds galaxies together: dark matter.

New observations support the idea that hot, diffuse threads of gas called cosmic filaments connect clusters of galaxies ...

Another clue about the whereabouts of the missing matter in the Universe has just emerged from amid the largest local cosmic ...