Scientists have taken a bold step toward understanding dark matter, the invisible force shaping the cosmos. Using atomic ...

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

In a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal, a team of scientists from the University of Tokyo, Peking ...

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 ...

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 is a hypothetical form of matter believed to be everywhere, outnumbering regular matter (what we're made of) 5-to-1. It doesn’t emit or interact with light, so it is invisible to our ...

An innovative approach in the search for dark matter using space/time-separated atomic clocks and lasers has yielded ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...