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The Milky Way rotates at a whopping 130 miles (210 kilometers) per second, but a new study has found that dark matter has slowed the rotation of its bar by...

The detection of the axion would mark a key episode in the history of science. This hypothetical particle could resolve two fundamental problems of Modern Physics at the same time:...

Stars are ‘dissolving’ in the bull’s head, researchers say. The Hyades — a young, V-shaped cluster of stars swooshing through the head of the constellation Taurus — is slowly being...

Back in 2016, researchers claimed to have found a galaxy made almost completely of dark matter and almost no stars. Now, on closer examination, that claim has fallen apart. The...

The vast majority of mass in our universe is invisible, and for a while, physicists have been trying really hard to understand what this elusive «stuff» is. Assumed to be...

NASA’s Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) provided a true watershed moment in humanity’s quest to understand the cosmos. Its findings calculated the age of the universe and plotted the curvature...

Astronomers studying the motions of galaxies and the character of the cosmic microwave background radiation came to realize in the last century that most of the matter in the universe...