Dark matter is invisible. It's all around us. And we have no idea what it is. The universe is so much bigger than what people can see. Visible matter — which makes up the things you can see like the ...

The discovery of what is potentially the smallest clump of dark matter ever seen strengthens the case for cold dark matter.

Dark matter, the substance that makes up about 27% of the universe, could potentially be detected as a red or blue light "fingerprint," new research shows. The research is published in the journal ...

Dark matter is an enigmatic form of matter not expected to emit light, yet it is essential to understanding how the rich ...

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 ...

Dark matter, the invisible stuff that scientists believe makes up around 85 percent of the mass in the universe, remains one of science’s biggest mysteries. As far as anyone has been able to establish ...

The true “informational age” of the cosmos may be 62 billion years, not just the 13.8 billion years of our current expansion.

Dark matter, the mysterious substance that makes up roughly 80 percent of all the matter in the universe, may have been forged before our cosmos was even born. Scientists have long theorized as to ...

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope hint that the universe’s first stars might not have been ordinary fusion ...

At age 12, Tracy Slatyer felt sorry for a book. She read a newspaper article about how lots of people were buying A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking. “But then … nobody was actually reading it ...