A new theory published in the APS physicsjournal seeks to explain the origin and proliferation of dark matter through the introduction of a simple concept: what if dark matter can turn regular matter ...

Astronomers using data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have observed what appears to be a clump of dark matter left behind from a wreck between massive clusters of galaxies. The result could ...

The Big Bang may not mark the absolute beginning of everything. A controversial cosmological model instead treats it as a ...

A faint glow of gamma rays hangs over the center of the Milky Way, stretching across thousands of light-years and refusing to give up its source. For years, one of the strongest counterarguments to a ...

The hunt for a dark matter explanation seems endless, but now we can mostly rule out one often mentioned potential culprit: black holes. “The idea of primordial black holes as dark matter is quite old ...

It has been more than 50 years since astronomers first proposed “dark matter,” which is thought to be the most common form of matter in the universe. Despite this, we have no idea what it is — nobody ...

Dark matter is some kind of substance that has gravity—it holds galaxies together—yet cannot be directly seen with any instrument yet created. We know it’s out there because of the effects it has on ...