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"If we see the lampshade effect in action, it will tell us about what dark matter could be, which is exciting." ...

"We will push the limits of what we can observe, and use every gravitational lens we detect with Roman to pin down the ...

Researchers, in a recent Physical Review Letters paper, introduce a new mechanism that may finally allow ultralight dark ...

Brian Schmidt explains dark energy’s role in accelerating universe expansion, 1998 discovery’s impact, and urges students to ...

Astronomers have finally tracked down missing "ordinary" matter, which they discovered hiding as gas spread out in the vast ...

Dark matter affects how stars move within galaxies, how galaxies build up over time, and how everything in the universe is ...

How the pioneering scientist, and namesake of an enormous new telescope, forced astronomers to rethink the universe.

We may already have had our first-ever encounter with dark matter, according to researchers who say a mysteriously ...

NASA's New Telescope 'Roman' Can Solve the Enigma That is Dark Matter, Researchers Claim Dark matter may soon come into the ...

Known for its large mass despite emitting very little light, Segue 1 is traditionally viewed as a prime candidate for ...