A new detector to home in on the mystery of dark matter is getting closer to deployment. At the University of Southampton in ...

Dark matter is a hypothetical form of matter believed to be everywhere, outnumbering regular matter (what we're made of) 5-to ...

Euclid’s jaw-dropping capture of the closest Einstein ring ever seen reveals the hidden forces shaping our universe — and ...

Observations from the James Webb Space Telescope reveal monster black holes in the early universe that seem to have grown too ...

Featuring the world’s largest digital camera, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will capture these mysterious phenomena in more ...

An international team found dark matter dominating the halos of two supermassive black holes in galaxies 13 billion light ...

Because we haven't found anything yet, we've started to wonder if dark matter might be lighter or heavier than we thought. Dark matter can't be too heavy or it might break our best model of the ...

Further study turned up non-answer after non-answer. No study or probe has yet found an identifiable sample of dark matter. What is it? No one knows. And yet it shows up repeatedly in the data ...

"Vera Rubin provided the first evidence for dark matter using the rotation curves of nearby local galaxies. We're using the same technique but now in the early universe," said Silverman. Made ...

"It marks an exciting step forward in our understanding of dark matter and the dynamics of the Milky Way." A perplexing "break" in a stream of stars around the Milky Way could be the result of ...

Invisible dark matter makes up most of the mass in the universe, far outweighing the amount of matter we can see. | Credit: Dark matter, R. Caputo et al. 2016; background, Axel Mellinger ...