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

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

Dark matter is already one of the strangest substances in the universe, but a new study suggests this elusive material could ...

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

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

The vast majority of matter is dark – invisible until it is detected only through its gravitational effects. The newly discovered object could be a clump of dark matter, or it could also be a compact, ...

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

According to current understanding, the universe is expanding—and is doing so at an accelerating rate. This is believed to be ...

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 ...

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

Scientists using data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have made one of the most detailed, high-resolution maps of dark matter ever produced. It shows how invisible, ghostly material ...