New research using a space-time phenomenon predicted by Einstein presents evidence that the invisible backbone of the ...

Astronomers at the University of Alabama in Huntsville may have found the closest evidence yet of a hidden clump of dark ...

Hypothetical dark matter stars known as "boson stars" could leave telltale ripples across the cosmos, offering researchers a new way to probe the invisible forces shaping the universe. In 2019, a ...

After nearly a century of experts theorizing and searching for the universe’s most elusive component, a Japanese astronomer believes he has finally captured the first direct glimpse of dark matter, a ...

For nearly 100 years since its discovery, dark matter has been known only by its powerful gravitational tug on the universe. Now, a new analysis of data from a NASA space telescope suggests scientists ...

A group of US astronomers may have uncovered the first evidence for a dark matter sub-halo lurking just beyond our stellar ...

The vast majority of matter is dark – invisible until it is detected only through its gravitational effects. The newly discovered object could be a clump of dark matter, or it could also be a compact, ...

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 ...

Seeing is not believing when it comes to dark matter. Scientists have blown stargazers’ collective minds after discovering a massive dark object in space that’s completely invisible to the naked eye, ...

In the vast universe, galaxies rotate in ways that don’t make sense if only visible matter is considered. For almost a century, scientists have tried to explain this by searching for a hidden force ...

Astronomers have uncovered what looks like the sharpest evidence so far that a dense clump of dark matter is lurking ...