Searches for dark matter particles have come up empty so far, driving theorists to get more creative with their ideas.

New data is telling us that Neutron stars may make one of the most popular dark matter candidates. Neutron stars aren't dark matter--we figured that out a while ago. But new research is telling us ...

85% of the mass of our universe is made up of dark matter. 85% of the mass of our universe is made up of dark matter--a type of matter that we cannot see or detect, but without it, galaxies would not ...

Imagine a star powered not by nuclear fusion, but by one of the universe’s greatest mysteries—dark matter. Scientists have proposed the existence of “dark dwarfs,” strange glowing objects potentially ...

In the early 1930s, Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky observed galaxies in space moving faster than their mass should allow, prompting him to infer the presence of some invisible scaffolding—dark ...

Researchers may have identified what could be a compelling clue in the ongoing hunt to prove the existence of dark matter. A mysterious diffuse glow of gamma rays near the center of the Milky Way has ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has already begun to unravel the mysteries of the universe, offering new insights into ...

What is the nature of dark matter? A new experiment led by Columbia University physics professors aims to find out.

UC Santa Cruz physicist Stefano Profumo has put forward two imaginative but scientifically grounded theories that may help solve one of the biggest mysteries in physics: the origin of dark matter. In ...

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 ...

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 ...