New research suggests sub-stellar objects called dark dwarfs could glow forever on dark matter energy. Could they reveal secrets about the universe’s hidden mass?

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

Particles orbiting a black hole could collide at colossal energies, generating collision products that may offer valuable ...

Some faint stars may not burn with fusion but with dark matter itself. These "dark dwarfs" could be the long-awaited clue to ...

With the recent first light milestone for the Vera Rubin Observatory, it's only a matter of time before one of astronomy's ...

At cosmological scales, Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity has given scientists an immensely accurate blueprint ...

The latest experiment also represents the first time the LZ team applied a technique called “salting,” in which false WIMP ...

Don’t call them Duergar—they’re dark dwarfs. A new study published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (JCAP) proposes that the core of our galaxy is full of an all-new category of ...

Dark matter remains one of science's deepest mysteries. It makes up about 25% of our universe, yet scientists only observe ...

"Dark matter could be captured by stars and accumulate inside them. If that happens, it might also interact with itself and ...

Black holes are already among the most mysterious objects in the galaxy, and yet, one specific type has almost completely ...

Some of the faintest, coldest stars in the universe may be powered not by fusion—but by the annihilation of dark matter deep ...