For as long as she can remember, Elena Pinetti, a dark matter hunter at the Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Astrophysics, wanted to be a scientist. In high school she fell in love with ...

UC Santa Cruz physicist Stefano Profumo has put forward two imaginative but scientifically grounded theories that may help solve one of the biggest mysteries in physics: the origin of dark matter. In ...

Faint hydrogen signals from the cosmic Dark Ages may soon help determine the mass of dark matter particles. Simulations suggest future Moon-based observatories could distinguish between warm and cold ...

Researchers have been looking at everything, including supernovas, trying to uncover the mysteries of dark matter. Recent scientific studies suggest that dark matter might not be a particle hiding in ...

Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist Adam Riess will share the latest research into the expanding universe in his public lecture, “The Surprising Expansion History of the Universe,” part of this year’s ...

Black hole discovery reshaped astrophysics by proving that some of the universe's most powerful objects cannot be seen directly but can be measured through their effects on space and time. Signals ...

Our Milky Way galaxy may not have a supermassive black hole at its center but rather an enormous clump of mysterious dark matter exerting the same gravitational influence, astronomers say. They ...

Watch a video explaining how a supermassive black hole might not be at the center of our galaxy, but dark matter instead. They said they believe dark matter at the Milky Way’s core can explain both ...