"The new model can account for both structure formation and stability, and the key observational properties of the expansion ...

Astronomers have long been puzzled by two strange phenomena at the heart of our galaxy. First, the gas in the central ...

Dark matter is a hypothetical substance that outweighs regular matter – which makes stars, planets, and everything we can see ...

The detection of dark matter, the elusive type of matter predicted to make up most of the universe's mass, is a long-standing ...

Scientists have designed a 'cosmic radio' detector which could discover dark matter in 15 years. Published today in Nature, scientists at King's College London, Harvard University, UC Berkley and ...

We can't see dark matter, but scientists have made the largest map yet of the invisible material that helps make up the universe. Researchers used a dark energy camera and a large telescope to ...

There's a new twist in the hunt for dark matter, the invisible substance believed to make up 85 percent of all the mass in the universe: it may actually be way lighter. In a study published in the ...

A black hole is a region of space where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape. There are two main ...

Evidence suggests that we are suspended in a cosmic sea of dark matter, a mysterious substance that shapes galaxies and large structures in the universe but is transparent to photons, the carriers ...

"Really, Euclid is not only a dark universe detective, it's also a time machine. We will look back 10 billion years in cosmic history." The day that astronomers have been waiting for is here.