Searches for dark matter particles have come up empty so far, driving theorists to get more creative with their ideas.

What is the nature of dark matter? A new experiment led by Columbia University physics professors aims to find out.

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 ...

In this video, Arvin Ash explores the history of the universe from the Big Bang to modern cosmology. Key discoveries include: - **1920s**: Edwin Hubble discovered galaxies outside the Milky Way and ...

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, ...

A simple explanation of dark matter and antimatter, how they differ, how scientists study them, and why both are important to understanding the universe.

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 ...

Astronomer Vera Rubin spent much of her career at the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Terrestrial Magnetism in Washington, D.C. She's best known for convincing the world that dark matter exists.

A NASA telescope may have detected evidence of dark matter, enabling it to be “‘seen” for the first time. Since dark matter was conceptualized nearly 100 years ago by Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky, ...