The Milky Way isn't just drifting through a giant void in space untethered, but is embedded in a sheet of dark matter like a blueberry in a pancake, new research suggests.

This video explores the enigma of dark matter, an elusive substance believed to make up most of the universe's matter. While the universe is populated by visible stars and galaxies, much of its mass ...

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For decades, astronomers wondered why most nearby galaxies are speeding away from the Milky Way instead of being pulled in by its gravity. New simulations reveal the answer: our galaxy sits in a ...

Most of the (dark) matter beyond the Local Group of galaxies (which includes the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy) must be ...

A galaxy made almost entirely of dark matter, an elusive form of matter that doesn’t interact with light, was spotted by Hubble 250 million light-years from Earth.

Astronomers just uncovered something strange about our galactic neighborhood. The Milky Way may not sit inside a simple halo of invisible matter after all.

Astronomers with the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX), have used data from the project to make the ...

The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. LOS ANGELES, Feb. 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- A groundbreaking computational physics framework has demonstrated that the ...

(via Sabine Hossenfelder) Our universe is a very strange place, but a new dark matter simulation seems to suggest that we live in a particularly strange area in it. According to a new paper published ...