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

Scientists may have found a new way to detect some of the universe's most mysterious objects, primordial black holes (PBHs), ...

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

The earliest and most distant supermassive black hole discovered thus far by JWST is CEERS 1019, which existed just 570 ...

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

We have to think outside of the box because what has been done to find primordial black holes previously hasn’t worked,” said ...

Astronomers have uncovered the most promising evidence yet for the existence of dark stars—giant cosmic objects powered by ...

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

Scientists could turn to black holes to aid the search for dark matter and similarly elusive particles that hold clues to the universe’s deepest secrets, a new study by Oxford University ...

Known for its large mass despite emitting very little light, Segue 1 is traditionally viewed as a prime candidate for studying dark matter-dominated galaxies. However, the unique investigation ...

A team of scientists is proposing a bold alternative to the Big Bang theory, suggesting that our universe may have instead ...