Dark energy may be the most mysterious substance ever proposed, but many scientists are certain it exists. Why?

"WIMPs are still the leading candidate for dark matter, but billions of dollars of experiments have been done, only getting ...

When it comes to understanding the universe, what we know is only a sliver of the whole picture.

A new computational breakthrough is giving scientists a clearer view into how dark matter structures evolve. Dark matter has ...

An object spotted in deep space is the strongest candidate yet for a galaxy arrested during early development.

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 ...

Dark matter is an elusive type of matter that does not emit, absorb or reflect light, interacting very weakly with ordinary ...

Researchers suggest that dark matter might subtly color light red or blue as it passes through, revealing traces of its existence. Using a network-like model of particle connections, they argue ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures the magnificent starry population of the Coma Cluster of galaxies, one of the densest known galaxy collections in the universe — and where the effect of dark ...

Nov. 26 (UPI) --More than 100 years after its existence was predicted, scientists report that they have, for the first time, seen dark matter. Scientists have been able to indirectly observe ...