An excess of gamma rays in the center of our galaxy could mean scientists have finally detected dark matter particles—or not ...

"It's a fairly unusual question to ask in the scientific world, because most researchers would agree that dark matter is dark ...

Scientists working with the Gemini North and Keck II telescopes have discovered a galaxy that's made from 99.99% dark matter. And they noticed it because it was "fluffy." Share on Facebook (opens in a ...

Dark matter is one of nature's most confounding mysteries. It keeps particle physicists up at night and cosmologists glued to their supercomputer simulations. We know it's real because its mass ...

Dark matter is a type of matter that does not emit, absorb, or reflect light, making it invisible to telescopes. Israeli scientists have outlined a groundbreaking method to study dark matter, ...

Imagine a star powered not by nuclear fusion, but by one of the universe’s greatest mysteries—dark matter. Scientists have proposed the existence of “dark dwarfs,” strange glowing objects potentially ...

For decades, astronomers have believed that dark matter and dark energy make up most of the universe. However, a new study suggests they might not exist at all. Instead, what we perceive as dark ...

Dark matter, the invisible substance believed to account for over 80 percent of the universe’s mass, is not an easy thing to detect. We can see its gravitational pull on visible matter, however — ...

For all our telescopes and colliders, dark matter has remained an elusive ghost for the better part of a century. It outweighs everything we see by a factor of five, yet it slips past every detector ...

New research suggests that dark matter could gather over vast periods of time at the heart of Jupiter-sized planets, creating black holes that eat these worlds from within. This striking concept may ...