SEATTLE – An international team of astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has created the first three-dimensional map of the large-scale distribution of dark matter in the universe. Dark ...

Dark matter makes up 85% of the universe’s matter. But dark matter particles are cold and collisionless, meaning they don't interact with each other. Now, a new study, published in Physical Review ...

Dark matter is an enigmatic form of matter not expected to emit light, yet it is essential to understanding how the rich tapestry of stars and galaxies we see in the night sky evolved. As a ...

Cosmologists are finally beginning to sketch a coherent picture of the universe we cannot see, using exquisitely detailed maps of galaxies, ghostly light and the large scale structure of space itself.

"If we see the lampshade effect in action, it will tell us about what dark matter could be, which is exciting." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

The dark object has a mass a million times greater than our sun's is located 10 billion light-years away and has no stars. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

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The Milky Way — and in fact our entire galactic neighborhood known as the Local Group — appear to be lodged in a vast, extended “sheet” of dark matter flanked on each side by cosmic voids, new ...

A new theory claims dark matter and dark energy don’t exist — they’re just side effects of the universe’s changing forces. By rethinking gravity and cosmic timelines, it could rewrite our ...

Physicists have unveiled a new way to simulate a mysterious form of dark matter that can collide with itself but not with normal matter. This self-interacting dark matter may trigger a dramatic ...

A huge clump of dark matter could be sitting on our galactic doorstep. Scientists found evidence of an invisible, massive nugget in the galactic neighborhood of the sun. The suspected clod of dark ...