The Milky Way is not the neat, flat pinwheel many of us learned about in school. Fresh data from precision star maps now show ...

An artist's impression of the warped disk of the Milky Way, surrounded by a slightly flattened dark matter halo. | Credit: Kaiyuan Hou and Zhanxun Dong (School of Design, Shanghai Jiao Tong University ...

One of the new high-resolution simulations of the dark matter enveloping the Milky Way and its neighbour, the Andromeda galaxy. The new study shows that earlier, failed attempts to find counterparts ...

"Dark matter remains one of the biggest mysteries in physics, and this work shows that we may have been overlooking its subtle chemical effects on the cosmos." When you purchase through links on our ...