To mark its third year of highly productive science, astronomers used the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope to scratch ...

Imagine a star powered not by nuclear fusion, but by one of the universe’s greatest mysteries—dark matter. Scientists have ...

“Dark matter interacts gravitationally, so it could be captured by stars and accumulate inside them. If that happens, it might also interact with itself and annihilate, releasing energy that heats the ...

Dark matter is one of nature's most confounding mysteries. It keeps particle physicists up at night and cosmologists glued to ...

New research suggests sub-stellar objects called dark dwarfs could glow forever on dark matter energy. Could they reveal secrets about the universe’s hidden mass?

Dark matter may ignite brown dwarfs into glowing “dark dwarfs” Only self-annihilating dark matter types would create this effect James Webb Telescope may already be able to detect dark dwarfs ...

Suppose the most hesitant twinges at the heart of the Milky Way are not failed stars, but universe-powered cosmic labs powered by the universe’s most mysterious ingredient? New theoretical studies ...

Astronomers propose dark dwarfs—objects powered by dark matter annihilation—may exist near the galactic center, offering key clues about WIMPs.