The majority of our evidence for dark matter’s existence comes from observing visible (or baryonic) matter that does not ...

Computer algorithms can model the universe, matching simulations to observations and revealing the distribution of dark ...

Scientists are working on an ambitious dark matter experiment in space in the hope it can unravel one of the universe's ...

Dark matter can't be too heavy or it might break our best model of the universe, new research suggests. We have an abundance ...

Detecting dark matter, the elusive type of matter predicted to account for most of the universe's mass, has so far proved to ...

Dark matter could also explain certain optical illusions that astronomers see in the deep universe. For example, pictures of galaxies that include strange rings and arcs of light could be ...

"It marks an exciting step forward in our understanding of dark matter and the dynamics of the Milky Way." A perplexing "break" in a stream of stars around the Milky Way could be the result of ...

Recent studies challenge the long-held belief that the Milky Way is a standard model for understanding galaxy formation, ...

One mile beneath a mountain in Italy, scientists at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory fill a particle detector with liquid xenon, hoping to observe evidence of dark matter. The idea is that ...

Detecting dark matter particles and understanding their underlying physics is a long-standing research goal for many researchers worldwide. Dark matter searches have been aimed at detecting different ...

Astronomers used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to reveal 44 stars in a galaxy so far away, its light dates to when the universe was half its age.

Dark matter makes up most of the matter in the universe, but scientists still have much to learn about this mysterious material. At Live Science, we follow the monumental research seeking answers ...