Scientists are a step closer to solving one of the universe's biggest mysteries as new research finds evidence that two of ...

New research puts forward compelling new evidence that dark matter interacts with cosmic "ghost particles" called neutrinos.

A newly discovered celestial object may be a starless cloud that could change how astronomers understand dark matter.

An object spotted in deep space is the strongest candidate yet for a galaxy arrested during early development. It's been ...

When it comes to understanding the universe, what we know is only a sliver of the whole picture.

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 ...

Dark matter and its impact on cosmology have puzzled physicists for nearly a century. At Perimeter Institute, two researchers are trying to better understand how one potential dark matter candidate, ...

One hypothesis for the nature of dark matter is that some of it could be self-interacting, meaning the individual particles interact slightly with one another. When you purchase through links on our ...

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 ...

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 ...