A mysterious excess of far-ultraviolet light seen across the Milky Way could come from the annihilation of clumpy dark matter ...

Normal matter – which makes up everything we see and touch – isn’t the only type of matter present in the universe.

By studying faint distortions in galaxy shapes across a vast region of sky, scientists probed the hidden structure of the universe. In the standard picture of the universe, nearly everything is hidden ...

Recent observational breakthroughs are beginning to challenge the long-standing view of dark energy as unchanging. Data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument ( DESI ), an advanced survey ...

In the dense environment of the early universe, dark matter particles would collide with, and annihilate, each other, ...

Neil deGrasse Tyson reveals dark matter in a fresh perspective, explaining its mysterious role in the universe, how it shapes ...

Cosmic dawn galaxies seen by JWST reveal hidden clues about dark matter and keep rival theories about its true nature alive.

A new study by researchers at the University of Amsterdam shows how gravitational waves from black holes can be used to reveal the presence of dark matter and help determine its properties. The key is ...

In this video, complex concepts about dark matter are simplified for young children. The engaging explanations aim to make ...

Dark matter has baffled astronomers since the 1930s, when Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky noticed galaxies in the Coma Cluster racing around far too fast to be held together by visible matter alone.

Scientists may have observed dark matter directly for the first time, using data from NASA's Fermi gamma-ray space telescope - a finding that, if verified, would mark a major shift in modern physics, ...

Professor Tomonori Totani analysed 15 years of data from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-Ray Space. Image courtes: fermi.gsfc.nasa.gov Scientists have been trying to crack the code of dark matter for decades. Not ...