Imagine a star powered not by nuclear fusion, but by one of the universe’s greatest mysteries—dark matter. Scientists have ...

For nearly a century, scientists around the world have been searching for dark matter—an invisible substance believed to make ...

Dark matter is one of nature's most confounding mysteries. It keeps particle physicists up at night and cosmologists glued to ...

Dark matter could act as a cosmic matchmaker between dark matter and merging supermassive black holes, solving astronomy's "final parsec problem." ...

Dark matter, widely known as the universe's most mysterious stuff, is rarer on Earth than gold — and that's despite the fact that dark matter outweighs "ordinary matter" by a staggering ratio of ...

But axions were pushed aside as the WIMPs hypothesis gained more steam. Back-of-the-envelope calculations showed that the ...

Because it doesn't interreact with light or electromagnetism, dark matter exists to us only through its influence on visible ...

"If dark matter does not behave like standard cold dark matter and the streaming effect isn't present, then these bright dwarf galaxies won't be found and we need to go back to the drawing board." ...

But in an era of dwindling hope for dark matter, polarizing is good; more people should be thinking big and drawing heat like Verlinde.

An idea derived from string theory suggests that dark matter is hidden in an as-yet-unseen extra dimension. Scientists are racing to test the theory to see if it holds up.

Dark matter is more than five times as abundant as all the visible matter in the universe. So why can't we see any of it?

Because dark matter permeates space, the researchers say that the massive gravity of gas giant planets should draw dark matter particles into an invisible cloud surrounding and permeating them.