Scientists discovered the Milky Way lies within a vast flat dark-matter sheet spanning about 32 million light-years.

Astronomers working with the Hubble Space Telescope have identified a nearly invisible galaxy in the Perseus Cluster that appears to consist almost entirely of dark matter. Designated Candidate Dark ...

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

The oldest stars in the Milky Way are forcing a fresh look at one of cosmology’s biggest arguments. If some of them are about ...

Michael S Turner argues that the next breakthrough in particle physics and cosmology may be just around the corner.

From 19 to 22 January, 80 particle physicists, astronomers and cosmologists gathered at CERN for the first “All that ...

A galaxy made of 99.94% to 99.98% dark matter immediately challenges and updates models for how dark matter works. It also sheds light on how the universe arrived at the large-sca ...

A new study published in Nature Astronomy indicates that the dense, star- and dark-matter–rich environments around supermassive black hole binaries pack on the order of a million solar masses into ...

About 13.8 billion years ago, the origin of the universe began with the Big Bang. Scientists say all space, time, matter, and ...

For decades, astronomers wondered why most nearby galaxies are speeding away from the Milky Way instead of being pulled in by ...

Apple TV's multiverse sci-fi thriller, Dark Matter, starring Joel Edgerton, is surging up the charts ahead of the new season.

A particular kind of dark matter can explain multiple mysterious signals coming from the centre of our galaxy. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope ...