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

Dark matter may be far more complicated than scientists once believed. A new study suggests it could consist of at least two ...

For decades, dark matter has been treated as the unseen framework around which galaxies take shape. Even the smallest ...

Dark matter may not have needed a calm, cold start to help build the universe. That is the challenge raised by new work from researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities and Université ...

Two experiments designed to detect signals directly found no evidence for the signal reported by an earlier experiment.

A blip of light in the outer reaches of the Milky Way might be a bizarre black hole born at the beginning of time itself—and the long-sought solution to the mystery of dark matter. Astronomers are ...

Scientists at Rutgers and collaborators have traced the invisible dark matter scaffolding of the universe using over 100,000 Lyman-alpha emitting galaxies. By studying how these galaxies clustered ...

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

An observatory in Chile is taking a timelapse of the sky over the Southern Hemisphere to help scientists measure the ...

Dark matter accounts for 85% of the matter in the universe, but scientists still do not know what it is made of. A study, ...

After decades of hunting, physicists still don’t know what makes up most of the universe’s matter. Now they need to cast a wider net.