A new high-resolution map of dark matter, created using data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, is offering more clues into the part the mysterious stuff plays in the formation of universe. The ...

Hypothetical dark matter stars known as "boson stars" could leave telltale ripples across the cosmos, offering researchers a new way to probe the invisible forces shaping the universe. In 2019, a ...

A collision may have left these galaxies without dark matter. That spells trouble for alternative gravity theories.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures the magnificent starry population of the Coma Cluster of galaxies, one of the densest known galaxy collections in the universe — and where the effect of dark ...

Dark Matter: The Universe’s Invisible Dominator Anyone passionate about astrophysics or cosmology knows that, for several ...

For centuries, scientists have been hunting for an invisible glue that many believe holds our cosmos together. They have yet to observe this “dark matter,” but there are convincing signs it exists; ...

Astronomers have discovered the first globular cluster stellar stream beyond the Milky Way, opening a new way to study dark matter in distant galaxies. These faint trails of stars trace a galaxy’s ...

Directly detecting dark matter is one of modern science’s holy grails. Despite making up 85% of all matter in the universe, this elusive substance – first theorized to exist in the early 1930s – doesn ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: For nearly a century, scientists have been searching for direct evidence of dark matter—one of the key missing pieces of our theoretical ...

Black holes crashing together may be revealing clues about dark matter hidden across the universe. Physicists created a new model predicting how dark matter could subtly distort gravitational waves ...

An artist's conception of dark matter "hair" extending from the Earth. NASA/JPL-Caltech Scientists have discovered that there is about as much dark matter in space as they had hypothesized there was ...