Pulsating remnants of stars hint at a clump of invisible matter thought to be about 10 million times the sun’s mass.

Dark matter is a mysterious type of matter that does not emit, absorb, or reflect light, yet is predicted to account for most ...

Findings allow scientists to learn more about dark matter’s influence on stars, galaxies, and planets ...

In a landmark discovery that bridges nearly a century of theoretical physics, a Chinese research team has successfully ...

The ghostly matter co-evolved with regular matter that makes up the visible universe.

Scientists have created the highest resolution map of the dark matter that threads through the universe—showing its influence ...

Astronomers found evidence that dark matter and neutrinos may interact, hinting at a "fundamental breakthrough" that ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures the magnificent starry population of the Coma Cluster of galaxies, one of the densest known galaxy collections in the universe — and where the effect of dark ...

Dark matter seems invisible, but it makes up most matter, and we have evidence that it gives the cosmos its shape. Now ...

For nearly a century, scientists have been searching for direct evidence of dark matter—one of the key missing pieces of our theoretical understanding of the universe. While we have glimpsed the ...

There’s a new twist in the hunt for dark matter, the invisible substance believed to make up 85 percent of all the mass in the universe: it may actually be way lighter. In a study published in the ...

Immerse yourself in the exciting exploration of Dark Matter with the “Phantom of the Universe” planetarium show at Lycoming College on Friday, Feb. 6.