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

A new type of self-interacting dark matter could provide solutions to three very different cosmic puzzles, new research ...

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 ...

Newton’s Law of Gravity just survived its biggest cosmic test. Scientists studied nearly 686,000 galaxies spread across 7 ...

Dark matter is thought to make up most of the matter in the universe, but the only way it interacts with its surroundings is ...

A new study led by researchers at the University of California, Riverside, suggests that a different type of dark matter could explain several puzzling cosmic observations that have long challenged ...

Dark matter particles could be mediators of the interaction between electrons and atomic nuclei, as shown by a study ...

A new study suggests that decaying dark matter may have helped create the universe’s first supermassive black holes much ...

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 ...

Scientists propose early cosmic waves formed dark matter, linking its origin to gravitational ripples from the young Universe ...

Ask most astronomers, and they’ll tell you that dark matter and dark energy make up more than 95 percent of the universe and that they are the explanations for many of the large-scale phenomena we ...

Dark centre? A simulated version of the Milky Way galaxy. (Courtesy: AIP/ A. Khalatyan) Astronomers have long puzzled over the cause of a mysterious “glow” of very high energy gamma radiation ...