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Look: Ghostly, mysterious galaxies help unlock the secrets of dark matter

These "failed Milky Ways" explain weird galaxy births.

ByJennifer Walter
Knotty

Look: JWST captures a galaxy cluster that could solve a dark matter mystery

ByJennifer Walter
Into the dark

Dark matter: How the Webb telescope can help solve a cosmic mystery

It will have an important role to play.

ByJohn Kelvey
got you!

Scientists may have found a strange way to detect dark matter collisions

The shockwave caused by the collision would break the sound barrier.

ByPassant Rabie
Science

Does dark matter exist? A provocative theory proposes a new rule of gravity

Time to go back to Newton.

ByIndranil Banik and The Conversation
Dark Matter

A new twist on dark matter is challenging our understanding of the cosmic mystery

Scientists used a new set of data to disprove the dark matter signal detected by the DAMA experiment.

ByPassant Rabie
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These torn bits of small galaxies could reveal dark matter mysteries

A dozen groups of moving stars could point the way.

ByPassant Rabie
Science

Astronomers just made a dark matter discovery in a nearby dwarf galaxy

The searches turned up empty, but they weren’t a failure.

ByPAUL M. SUTTER and Universe Today
Science

A Second Big Bang May Have Flooded the Universe With Dark Matter

The Big Bang may have not been alone.

ByPAUL M. SUTTER and Universe Today
the missing piece

What is dark matter? The most mysterious force of the universe explained

Can we ever find the missing force of the cosmos?

ByPassant Rabie
Space

ESA's Dark Matter Mission Just Hit a Critical Step to Begin Its Hunt

Euclid is designed to shine a spotlight on the dark universe.

ByDoris Elín Urrutia
Science

Dark matter may be hiding deep inside distant exoplanets

Abnormally warm exoplanets could be a sign of elusive physics happening deep below.

ByBrian Koberlein
space

Dead Stars Could Hold the Secrets of Dark Matter

If you want to find something that's invisible except for its gravitational effects, look down the steepest gravity wells in the universe.

ByKiona Smith
Science

Massive new physics project could finally find dark matter

Dark matter is an archetype of a missing phenomenon, but there are plenty of potential explanations for it.

ByAndy Tomaswick and Universe Today
Science

These galaxies have no dark matter — and astronomers may finally know why

A galaxy 65 million light years away holds secrets to an ancient traffic jam, which may have kicked out dark matter in the process.

ByCharles Q. Choi
Science

How a Dune-inspired spacecraft could finally reveal what dark matter is made of

This nimble satellite will try to track down one of the most elusive and mysterious substances in the universe: dark matter.

ByThe Conversation and Andreea Font
Science

Scientists could use a meteor-hunting technique to uncover dark matter

Do look up.

ByAllen Versfeld and Universe Today
Science

In the search for dark matter, an unexpected tool may give scientists hope

And it’s not from the world of science...

ByAntonis Antoniou and The Conversation
disappearing act

A strange galaxy has no dark matter, and astronomers aren't sure why

The latest findings add to the mystery of the already elusive dark matter.

ByPassant Rabie
Science

Dark matter fueled the first stars in the universe — new study

Dark matter is incredibly boring, but maybe that wasn’t always the case

ByPAUL M. SUTTER and Universe Today
404 error

Dark matter study challenges scientists' models of the universe

For cosmology, it may be back to the drawing board.

ByPassant Rabie
Space

Physicists Confirm A Long-Held Belief About Dark Energy Using Unique Supernova

Astronomers just found the most solid evidence yet that dark energy is constant throughout the cosmos, unchanging with space or time.

ByRahul Rao
space

New Map of Dark Matter Could Finally Solve a Cosmic Mystery

The team mapped the distribution of dark matter along a straight line through space at a higher resolution than ever before, and it may help us close in on what dark matter actually is.

ByKiona Smith
Space

Astronomers May Have Found Ancient Stars Formed from Dark Matter

First stars, is that you?

ByDoris Elín Urrutia
Science

Physicists May Be Tantalizingly Close to Identifying What Dark Matter is Made Of

There’s some potentially big news on the hunt for dark matter.

ByCAROLYN COLLINS PETERSEN and Universe Today
Science

New measurements support the idea that dark matter doesn’t exist

Despite numerous searches, we have yet to detect dark matter particles.

ByBrian Koberlein and Universe Today
Science

A Large Hadron Collider discovery could point the way to dark matter

Violent nuclei may help scientists tackle an astrophysics mystery.

ByMatt Williams and Universe Today
Science

Haunting new Hubble galaxy cluster image puts dark matter front and center

How Abell 611 remains intact at its celestial perch is a major question.

ByDoris Elín Urrutia
Science

A sneaky interloper behind our galaxy’s center complicates the search for dark matter

Is it dark matter or pulsars giving off weird gamma rays?

ByDarren Orf
Science

Bizarre black holes and dark matter conspired to make the universe as we see it

Primordial black holes could have pulled matter toward it to trigger stellar formation.

ByBrian Koberlein and Universe Today