A new detector to home in on the mystery of dark matter is getting closer to deployment. At the University of Southampton in ...

The majority of our evidence for dark matter’s existence comes from observing visible (or baryonic) matter that does not ...

A stronomers using the Very Large Telescope at the European Southern Observatory in Chile have imaged a filament of the ...

Featuring the world’s largest digital camera, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will capture these mysterious phenomena in more ...

But the density of the object needs to be much higher than that of traditional cold dark matter (CDM) subhalos. "CDM subhalos typically lack the density needed to produce the distinctive features ...

"It marks an exciting step forward in our understanding of dark matter and the dynamics of the Milky Way." A perplexing "break" in a stream of stars around the Milky Way could be the result of ...

Because we haven't found anything yet, we've started to wonder if dark matter might be lighter or heavier than we thought. Dark matter can't be too heavy or it might break our best model of the ...

The traditional dark matter hypothesis, that it's some form of cold, massive particle that hardly ever interacts with itself or with normal matter, has some difficulties. In particular ...

A perplexing "break" in a stream of stars around the Milky Way could be the result of dark matter — that is, if the mysterious cosmic stuff interacts with itself. The feature in question is in the ...