Astronomers have detected one of the darkest objects ever seen at a record cosmic distance—only with the assistance of gravity. The discovery is an important step toward the observation of dark matter ...

The vast majority of matter is dark – invisible until it is detected only through its gravitational effects. The newly discovered object could be a clump of dark matter, or it could also be a compact, ...

Dark matter is believed to make up more than 80 percent of all matter in the universe, but what it actually is remains a mystery. Now, astronomers have found something that gives us a major clue. This ...

A mysterious object found deep in the cosmos could soon have astronomers rethinking what they know about dark matter. That's according to a team of researchers who turned to a global network of ...

Scientists have astonished stargazers’ collective minds following the discovery of a huge dark object in space that’s entirely invisible to the naked eye, as per the inspiring study in the journal ...

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Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is expected to reach its perihelion, or the closest point to the Sun in its highly eccentric path through our solar system, on October 29. Earlier this week, it reached ...

The dark object has a mass a million times greater than our sun's is located 10 billion light-years away and has no stars. A "dark object" detected as an anomalous notch in the arc of a ...

Brain teasers are like mini-playgrounds that are designed for our minds. They twist our thinking, and challenge our assumptions and in the end we are left with the satisfying 'aha' moment when we ...