The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, set to launch in 2027, would focus on possibly 160,000 gravitational lenses, of which ...

And there is ordinary matter such as gas, dust, stars, planets and earthly things like cookie dough and canoes.Scientists estimate that ordinary matter makes up only about 15 per cent of all matter, ...

Despite its abundance, dark matter remains one of the most elusive components in cosmology. Astronomers hope that the Roman ...

Astronomers have finally tracked down missing "ordinary" matter, which they discovered hiding as gas spread out in the vast ...

A new method proposes detecting dark compact objects, potential dark matter candidates, by observing the dimming of starlight as these objects pass between Earth and distant stars.

Do 'completely dark' dark matter halos exist? Date: April 8, 2025 Source: University of California - San Diego Summary: Every galaxy is thought to form at the center of a dark matter halo. Stars ...

Evidence suggests that we are suspended in a cosmic sea of dark matter, a mysterious substance that shapes galaxies and large structures in the universe but is transparent to photons, the carriers ...

"We are able to measure the local dark matter density using direct acceleration measurements for the first time." Dark matter, widely known as the universe's most mysterious stuff, is rarer on ...

"It marks an exciting step forward in our understanding of dark matter and the dynamics of the Milky Way." A perplexing "break" in a stream of stars around the Milky Way could be the result of ...

Most of the matter in our universe is invisible. We can measure the gravitational pull of this “dark matter” on the orbits of stars and galaxies. We can see the way it bends light around ...

AI-powered image recognition could give researchers a new tool in hunt for dark matter. It sounds fantastical, but it's a reality for the scientists who work at the world's largest particle ...

Two experiments, built to detect particles of dark matter, have caught initial glimpses of neutrinos born in the sun, physicists report. “That’s a triumph,” says neutrino physicist Kate ...