A new study argues that dark matter and dark energy might be illusions caused by the universe’s forces fading over time. For many years, scientists have thought that dark matter and dark energy make ...

The object was detected by observing how its gravity distorts light behind it. Astronomers have discovered an extremely faint ...

By listening for ghostly radio echoes from the early Universe, scientists believe future Moon missions could determine what ...

According to a new Physical Review Letters study, black holes could help solve the dark matter mystery. The shadowy regions in black hole images captured by the Event Horizon Telescope can act as ...

Dark matter, the substance that makes up about 27% of the universe, could potentially be detected as a red or blue light ...

Dark matter is invisible. It's all around us. And we have no idea what it is. The universe is so much bigger than what people can see. Visible matter — which makes up the things you can see like the ...

Astronomers say that NASA's James Webb Space Telescope may have spotted the universe's first "dark stars" that are fuelled by ...

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 ...

Ask most astronomers, and they'll tell you that dark matter and dark energy make up more than 95 percent of the universe and that they are the explanations for many of the large-scale phenomena we ...

We have not been able to detect dark matter yet, even though there are many aspects of the universe that suggest the existence of invisible matter. In one new theory, it is possible that dark matter ...

A massive clump of dark matter in the Perseus galaxy cluster is linked to its core by a bridge of dark matter, evidence of a history of mergers.

UC Santa Cruz physicist Stefano Profumo has put forward two imaginative but scientifically grounded theories that may help solve one of the biggest mysteries in physics: the origin of dark matter. In ...