Because it doesn't interreact with light or electromagnetism, dark matter exists to us only through its influence on visible ...

Dark matter "lampshades" could slip between Earth and distant stars, causing tiny amounts of dimming that may help explain one of the greatest puzzles in science.

The detection of dark matter, an elusive form of matter believed to account for most of the universe's mass, remains a long-standing goal within the physics research community. As this type of ...

The dark universe under pressure The dark universe is poses such a huge conundrum for scientists because it suggests that only 5% of the matter and energy in the cosmos comprises what we see ...

A dark matter halo with a galaxy at its heart. It's possible, however, that not all dark matter haloes could packed with stellar fillings.(Image credit: Robert Lea (created with Canva)) ...

Every galaxy is thought to form at the center of a dark matter halo. Stars are formed when gravity within dark matter halos draws in gas, but astrophysicists don't know whether star-free dark ...

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. — Kobe Bryant was under the weather, a flu bug having hit at the most inopportune time. There were 11th-hour edits to make on his new film, a months-long media tour to ...

When I entered the dark matter hunt in 2005, physicists were focused on searching for dark matter whispers from the weak force. Despite its name, the weak force is much stronger than gravity, and ...

Dark matter, which makes up about 85% of the total matter in the universe, has been sort of a problematic phenomenon for scientists because it doesn't interact with light — or, if it does, that ...

Dark matter can't be too heavy or it might break our best model of the universe, new research suggests. We have an abundance of evidence that something fishy is happening in the universe.

If this is the case, hot dark matter features like the break in the GD-1 stellar stream could offer researchers a way to investigate dark matter's properties. The team's research was published on ...

This dark matter makes up about 27 percen t of the universe's total mass-energy content, 68 percent of which is made up of dark energy, with only 5 percent being "normal" matter, according to NASA.