Deep in the center of our galaxy, scientists believe a strange type of star may be quietly glowing—not from fusion like our ...

Dark matter makes up 85% of the universe, but researchers, including Vera Rubin herself, historically have had a hard time ...

The way to find the darkness could be to look for the light. It might be a Zen, but the statement is also the latest proposal ...

Bechtol and his fellow scientists hope they can learn more about the universe than all of scientific progress has allowed in ...

This artist's conception depicts ordinary matter in the warm, thin gas making up the intergalactic medium (IGM)—which has ...

Dark dwarfs, celestial objects potentially hidden in our galaxy's center, may provide crucial insights into the enigmatic ...

Celestial objects known as dark dwarfs may be hiding at the center of our galaxy and could offer key clues to uncover the ...

This particular isotope burns away quickly inside stars due to their intense heat. But in cooler objects like brown dwarfs, ...

The Anglo-USA team behind the study named them dark dwarfs. Not because they are dark bodies—on the contrary—but because of ...

Scientists think they found evidence of weird ancient stars called "dark stars" that are powered by dark matter instead of ...

In a chilled lab where temperatures drop close to absolute zero, a speck of magnet hovers in place. This tiny magnet, ...