The only place that's likely to happen is at the very center of our galaxy. And, for a while, there was an excess of ...

Twin orbs of superhot plasma at the Milky Way's center known as the "Fermi bubbles" contain inexplicable clouds of cold ...

Suppose the most hesitant twinges at the heart of the Milky Way are not failed stars, but universe-powered cosmic labs ...

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 ...

Imagine a star powered not by nuclear fusion, but by one of the universe’s greatest mysteries—dark matter. Scientists have ...

Dark matter is one of nature's most confounding mysteries. It keeps particle physicists up at night and cosmologists glued to ...

According to Slatyer, the dark-matter explanation for the galactic center could yet make a comeback, and there is indeed another way to test the dark-matter hypothesis. When cosmic rays interact with ...

How a galaxy without dark matter is helping prove dark matter exists 03:23. Astronomers have detected what they believe to be one of the earliest instances of "galactic cannibalism" — when one ...

If dark matter is cold, a Milky Way-type galaxy could harbor one or two subhaloes weighing as much as 10 10 Suns, and most likely hundreds with masses of around 10 8 Suns. If dark matter is warm ...

Dark matter could be responsible for the mysterious observation of gamma rays in the center of our galaxy, according to a new paper. Astrophysicists have known for a decade that the center of the ...

Dark matter is a mysterious form of matter that is not visible to us, and is thought to make up about 27 percent of matter in the universe, according to NASA.Astrophysicists have long thought that ...

The search for dark matter – an unknown and invisible substance thought to make up the vast majority of matter in the universe – is at a crossroads. Although it was proposed nearly 70 years ago and ...