A new way to study 3D maps of galaxies in the cosmos without compressing the data is revealing new information about the dark ...

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 ...

Dark matter is more than five times as abundant as all the visible matter in the universe. So why can't we see any of it?

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

The majority of our evidence for dark matter’s existence comes from observing visible (or baryonic) matter that does not ...

An international team of researchers has found dark matter dominating the halos of two supermassive black holes in galaxies ...

An international team found dark matter dominating the halos of two supermassive black holes in galaxies 13 billion light ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...