It’s a foundational part of theoretical physics, and dark matter is widely believed to be a kind of scaffolding that holds universes together. So named because it neither emits light nor absorbs it, ...

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 ...

Cloud-9 was first discovered about three years ago by a telescope located in Guizhou, China. However, the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) wasn't able to exactly identify it for ...

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 ...

Two kilometres underground near Sudbury, Ont. , a machine has reached a temperature so low it barely seems real.

Invisible "dark matter"—what cosmologists call the mysterious glue that holds everything together—is estimated to make up ...

The discovery of a new subatomic particle that is likely the elusive Higgs boson — a particle thought to give all other matter its mass — could be an important step toward uncovering the invisible ...

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 first time I heard about galaxies without dark matter, I was sitting in my very first graduate class at the University of São Paulo. It was 2018, and the discovery had just been announced. A team ...

A new high-resolution map of dark matter, created using data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, is offering more clues into the part the mysterious stuff plays in the formation of universe. The ...

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 ...