Never has this been the case more than with dark matter. Though it's far more abundant than the matter we can see and feel, dark matter as we know it is virtually immune to observation ...

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 ...

For over a century, astronomers have searched the skies for a perfect example of a phenomenon predicted by Albert Einstein: a luminous halo formed by the bending of light around a massive object. Now, ...

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 ...

Because we haven't found anything yet, we've started to wonder if dark matter might be lighter or heavier than we thought. Dark matter can't be too heavy or it might break our best model of the ...

"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 ...

The first Einstein ring was discovered in 1987, and since then, several more have been discovered. However, it remains ...

For example, where a proton has a positive charge ... antihelium nuclei and offer a tantalising clue to the nature of dark matter. The hunt for dark matter has been one of the greatest challenges ...

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 ...

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