Modern cosmology assumes dark matter exists. But what makes us so certain that dark matter is the answer—and what if we're wrong? Reading time 8 minutes A huge chunk of the universe is missing. It’s ...

First and perhaps most perplexingly, researchers remain unsure about what exactly dark matter is. Originally, some scientists ...

A new kind of dark matter could help explain some of the universe’s mysteries, a new study suggests. The study proposes that there are dense clumps of “self-interacting dark matter”, or SIDM, each ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures the magnificent starry population of the Coma Cluster of galaxies, one of the densest known galaxy collections in the universe — and where the effect of dark ...

After decades of hunting, physicists still don’t know what makes up most of the universe’s matter. Now they need to cast a ...

The absence of a signal could itself be a signal. This is the idea behind a new study published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, which aims to redefine how we search for dark ...

Dark matter is invisible, because it neither absorbs or emits light like other matter in the universe does. We can only see its effects, because it bends space-time in a similar way to gravity. Quoted ...

The Bullet Cluster has so far been considered evidence of the existence of dark matter. An international team of researchers has now analyzed new data and current images from the James Webb Space ...

Dark matter is the invisible stuff making up around 85% of the universe’s mass. Like its name, dark matter is “dark” and doesn’t absorb, emit, or reflect light. And crucially, dark matter has yet to ...

"Almost every galaxy in the universe is dominated by dark matter. But DF2, DF4, and now DF9 appear to be extraordinary ...