As if dark energy weren't already mysterious and baffling enough, new research suggests that this unknown force may not be ...

Scientists have discovered that dark matter, the universe's most mysterious "stuff," obeys gravity on vast cosmological ...

This quiz dives into the mysterious world of dark matter — what we know, what we don't, and how scientists are chasing shadows across the cosmos. From galaxy rotation curves that defy Newton's laws to ...

For years, dark matter has puzzled scientists, lurking in the universe’s vast expanse yet eluding direct detection. This ...

A new research effort involving simulations of Milky-Way-like galaxies shows that the mysterious, unexplained extra gamma ...

According to the model, dark matter may have started as particles that were hot, light, massless, and fast. As the universe cooled, these particles became heavy, slow, and dark, becoming an invisible ...

Most people rarely experience the effects of dark matter in ordinary life. However, we live in an environment affected by ...

Despite it’s comparative size to our star, it’s still the least massive object ever detected using gravitational lensing.

A new study suggests the Milky Way’s gamma-ray glow could be a dark matter signal shaped by ancient galactic mergers.

A mysterious gamma-ray glow from the Milky Way's core has scientists divided. While pulsars were the leading theory, new ...

Does dark matter follow the same laws as ordinary matter? The mystery of this invisible and hypothetical component of our ...

Dark matter has two central properties: it has mass like regular matter, and unlike regular matter, it reacts weakly or not at all with light. Neutrinos satisfy these two criteria, but neutrinos move ...