Tiny highly uniform magnetic fields are known to pervade the universe, influencing various cosmological processes. To date, ...

New research using a space-time phenomenon predicted by Einstein presents evidence that the invisible backbone of the ...

"It highlights gravity's possible hidden complexity and invites a reevaluation of where dark matter effects originate." ...

Earlier this week, science writer Paul Sutter covered a bold new study that leans toward so‑called “fuzzy” dark matter as the hidden backbone of the cosmos. The research team compared three leading ...

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are helping to pave a path for the eventual discovery ...

Hypothetical dark matter stars known as "boson stars" could leave telltale ripples across the cosmos, offering researchers a new way to probe the invisible forces shaping the universe. In 2019, a ...

This enormous chain of hundreds of galaxies—a cosmic filament—is twisting through space 400 million light-years away ...

New research suggests that the heart of the Milky Way may be dominated by a dense clump of dark matter rather than the ...

Two fresh ideas are giving scientists new ways to think about how the universe’s hidden mass came to be. Together, they paint a richer picture of dark matter’s origins and how we might still discover ...

Dark matter is a type of matter that is predicted to make up most of the matter in the universe, yet it is very difficult to ...

Scientists have probed a period of the universe's early history that no one has been able to explore before — and they got a surprise: It was far colder in the young universe, before the first stars ...