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 ...

At least some evidence suggests that NGC 2775 developed its odd shape after merging with other galaxies eons ago. While not ...

“If this is correct, to the extent of my knowledge, it would mark the first time humanity has ‘seen’ dark matter. And it ...

In the early 1930s, Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky observed galaxies in space moving faster than their mass should allow, ...

For decades, scientists have only inferred dark matter’s existence through its gravitational pull on galaxies, but may now ...