A strange, starless cloud on the edge of a nearby galaxy is forcing astronomers to confront one of the biggest unknowns in ...
Two galaxies that are curiously lacking in dark matter — the most abundant matter in the Universe — might have formed when a collision between dwarf galaxies separated ordinary matter from its dark ...
Most of what people casually call “the universe” is not where instinct suggests. Stars, planets and glowing gas clouds are ...
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 ...
The "missing baryons problem," the discrepancy between the predicted and observed amount of normal matter in the universe, has persisted for over two decades. Scientists have previously located only ...