Scientists are revolutionizing our understanding of the universe’s most mysterious component: dark matter, the invisible ...

Featuring the world’s largest digital camera, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will capture these mysterious phenomena in more ...

New research using 3D galaxy maps and advanced algorithms reveals hidden information that could challenge our understanding ...

Invisible dark matter makes up most of the mass in the universe, far outweighing the amount of matter we can see. | Credit: Dark matter, R. Caputo et al. 2016; background, Axel Mellinger ...

Dark matter, predicted to account for most of the universe's mass, remains highly elusive. Physicists have been searching for various particles that could be promising dark matter candidates ...

"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 rest of the universe appears to be made of a mysterious, invisible substance called dark matter (25 percent) and a force that repels gravity known as dark energy (70 percent). Scientists have ...