Dark matter could also explain certain optical illusions that astronomers see in the deep universe. For example, pictures of galaxies that include strange rings and arcs of light could be ...

Dark matter makes up most of the matter in the universe, but scientists still have much to learn about this mysterious material. At Live Science, we follow the monumental research seeking answers ...

Yet despite researchers’ best efforts over decades to work out the nature of this “dark matter” – to find some clue direct or indirect as to what it’s made of, or even make it in the lab ...

"It marks an exciting step forward in our understanding of dark matter and the dynamics of the Milky Way." A perplexing "break" in a stream of stars around the Milky Way could be the result of ...

Dark energy and dark matter refers to the unseen energy and matter components of the Universe. Dark matter is invisible, non-baryonic matter hypothesized to explain phenomena including ...

Observations from the James Webb Space Telescope reveal monster black holes in the early universe that seem to have grown too ...

That’s how much of what’s floating about in the cosmos is ordinary matter—planets and stars and galaxies and the dust and gas between them. The other 95% is dark matter and dark energy ...

Observing the interactions between dark matter and so-called "dark photons" during a period after the Big Bang called the "cosmic dawn" could help shed light on the universe's most mysterious and ...

Here’s how it works. Galaxies may be anchored to giant "dark stars" — clumps of invisible matter sitting at their cores, new research suggests. Although astronomers have an abundance of ...

Dark matter continues to elude detection ... If a mirror star were to drift within the swirling gas of a nebula, for example, ...

(Climate goals under Biden, for example, involved not just the Environmental ... However, at this point in U.S. history, regulatory dark matter issued by unelected administrators and greased ...