NASA’s Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope has provided what may be the first clear detection of gamma rays from a superluminous ...

In the early 1930s, Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky observed galaxies in space moving faster than their mass should allow, prompting him to infer the presence of some invisible scaffolding—dark ...

For more than a decade, physicists hunting dark matter in the Milky Way’s core kept circling the same clue: a faint glow of ...

Nearly a century after astronomers first proposed dark matter to explain the strange motions of galaxies, scientists may finally be catching a glimpse of it. A University of Tokyo researcher analyzing ...