Somewhere in the distant universe, light from a quasar bends around a galaxy and reveals a dark clump so compact it should not exist. Closer to home, a thin ribbon of stars in the Milky Way bears a ...

Dark matter is one of the most important and most mysterious questions in modern astronomy. Although dark matter cannot be seen or touched, it profoundly influences the formation and evolution of ...

A study led by UC Riverside physicist Hai-Bo Yu suggests that a new type of dark matter could explain three astrophysical puzzles across vastly different environments. Published in Physical Review ...

Dark matter and its impact on cosmology have puzzled physicists for nearly a century. At Perimeter Institute, two researchers are trying to better understand how one potential dark matter candidate, ...

For years, three cosmic phenomena have puzzled astronomers. An ultradense concentration of matter distorts the light from a distant galaxy, a stream of stars bears a strange scar, and a star ...

A research team from the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory (XAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed an interpretable artificial intelligence (AI) framework named Convolutional Kolmogorov ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dark matter clumps could act as stellar lampshades, drifting between Earth and distant stars, dimming them by an almost ...

A new kind of dark matter could help explain some of the universe’s mysteries, a new study suggests. The study proposes that there are dense clumps of “self-interacting dark matter”, or SIDM, each ...

For centuries, scientists have been hunting for an invisible glue that many believe holds our cosmos together. They have yet to observe this “dark matter,” but there are convincing signs it exists; ...

Dark matter keeps getting blamed for the universe's big patterns while staying stubbornly out of reach. You cannot see it, touch it, or capture it. Yet its gravity helps shape galaxies, and that makes ...