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

Dark matter doesn't absorb or give off light so scientists can't study it directly. But they can observe how its gravity ...

Dark matter is a mysterious substance that glues galaxies together. This map from the James Webb Space Telescope could help ...

Data from the James Webb Space Telescope was used to create the largest, highest resolution map of dark matter, just ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A starless discovery by astronomers in Baltimore is shedding new light on dark matter. Astronomers told WBAL-TV 11 News that ...

For decades, dark matter has been the universe’s most stubborn mystery, silently shaping galaxies while refusing to show itself to our instruments. Now a bold new claim from a Japanese astronomer ...

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 ...

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, ...

Astronomers have discovered an extremely faint, low-mass object in the distant cosmos, raising suspicion that it could be made up of dark matter, the elusive substance that makes up nearly 30% of the ...

WIMPs (weakly interacting massive particles) are one of the most serious contenders for dark matter—the “missing” mass supposedly constituting 85% of our universe. Given its elusiveness, dark matter ...