Dark matter appears to hold galaxies together, yet it has never shown itself directly. A new theory suggests the missing ...

Two major mysteries in science, the nature of dark matter and the possible existence of higher dimensions, could be linked, ...

Researchers in the U.S. have carried out the most stringent tests to date of the idea that an ultraviolet glow in the ...

The mysterious substance that binds galaxies together could naturally be "in tune" with a hidden fifth dimension, according ...

Scientists have shown that the giant planets of the solar system could help uncover the nature of dark matter, using faint ...

Roughly 80 percent of the mass of the universe appears to be dark matter: an invisible material that seems to interact with ...

Dark matter is one of nature's most confounding mysteries. It keeps particle physicists up at night and cosmologists glued to their supercomputer simulations. We know it's real because its mass ...

A new theoretical framework suggests dark matter’s elusive behavior may arise from the geometry of a hidden fifth dimension.

Now is a surreal time to be a dark matter researcher. Even as research funding is being cut by governments around the world, dark matter remains one of the biggest and most exciting open problems in ...

The evidence for dark matter is everywhere and the evidence for dark matter is nothing. Galaxies rotate in ways that make no ...

Astronomers have recently started looking for black holes bigger than galaxies. Brian Lacki explains how these “stupendously ...

Researchers using new simulations suggest that the Milky Way’s past collisions may have reshaped its dark matter core. This distorted structure could naturally explain the puzzling gamma-ray glow long ...