Modern cosmology assumes dark matter exists. But what makes us so certain that dark matter is the answer—and what if we're wrong?

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has uncovered supermassive black holes when the Universe was barely 500 million years ...

A new kind of dark matter could help explain some of the universe’s mysteries, a new study suggests. The study proposes that there are dense clumps of “self-interacting dark matter”, or SIDM, each ...

Anyone who has been paying attention to cosmology over the past few years is aware of problems with our best attempts to ...

We may be more in the dark about dark matter than previously thought, according to a new analysis of distant galaxy clusters.

This new map is not only the most detailed view of the universe’s invisible scaffolding to date, it also allows astronomers to look deeper into cosmic history. Reading time 3 minutes Dark matter—the ...

Researchers have been looking at everything, including supernovas, trying to uncover the mysteries of dark matter. Recent scientific studies suggest that dark matter might not be a particle hiding in ...

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 ...

Something invisible holds the universe intact. It outweighs everything you can see—every star, every gas cloud, every galaxy—by a factor of five. We call it dark matter, and for decades, the standard, ...

Researchers using new simulations suggest that the Milky Way’s past collisions may have reshaped its dark matter core. This distorted structure could naturally explain the puzzling gamma-ray glow long ...

Black holes smashing together may churn dark matter "butter," scientists say.