Nearly a century after astronomers first proposed dark matter to explain the strange motions of galaxies, scientists may finally be catching a glimpse of it. A University of Tokyo researcher analyzing ...

A new study claims to show evidence of gamma-ray emissions that closely resemble those expected from two WIMPs colliding and ...

“If this is correct, to the extent of my knowledge, it would mark the first time humanity has ‘seen’ dark matter. And it ...

In the early 1930s, Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky observed galaxies in space moving faster than their mass should allow, ...

Scientists may have "seen" dark matter for the first time, thanks to NASA's Fermi gamma-ray space telescope. If so, this ...

For decades, scientists have only inferred dark matter’s existence through its gravitational pull on galaxies, but may now ...

Zoom into an amazing James Webb Space Telescope view of galaxy NGC 3256. It is " the wreckage of a head-on collision between two equally massive spiral galaxies," according to ESA/NASA. Credit: ...

An expanding universe complicates this picture just a little bit, because the universe absolutely refuses to be ...

See amazing views of colliding galaxies NGC 520 and barred galaxy IC 4212 in imagery from the Siena Galaxy Atlas. Credit: ...

After only one year of operations, the European Space Agency's Euclid mission has begun to unravel the mystery of why galaxies take on different shapes and how these different shapes relate to each ...

Although NGC 1511 is striking in appearance, it is not the kind of galaxy most would hope to live beside. Featured in this ...

Not long ago in Seattle, an astronomical event of sorts happened: Two superstars collided. William Shatner, of "Star Trek" fame, and Neil deGrasse Tyson, America's favorite astrophysicist, took to the ...