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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists have captured the first–ever direct evidence for dark matter, the elusive substance that makes up more than a quarter of the universe. Using NASA's Fermi telescope, researchers have ...

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 ...

A $2-billion probe designed to sniff the universe for cosmic rays and other exotic particles, including evidence of dark matter, has done just that, scientists said Wednesday. The first data collected ...