Although dark matter is invisible, its various effects can still sometimes be seen—such as in this Hubble Space Telescope image of the galaxy cluster Abell 370 some four billion light-years from ...

If this idea is correct, such "dark matter lampshades" could help solve the mystery of what dark matter is made of. This is a huge problem in science because, despite making up around 85% of the ...

This week's question comes from Terry Pitt-Brooke, from Salmon Arm, British Columbia. He asks: What evidence for dark matter has been found in our galaxy? Sean Tulin, a professor of physics at ...

"Dark matter could be captured by stars and accumulate inside them. If that happens, it might also interact with itself and annihilate, releasing energy that heats the star." ...

Dark matter is one of nature's most confounding mysteries. It keeps particle physicists up at night and cosmologists glued to their supercomputer simulations. We know it's real because its mass ...

Dark matter has never been seen, but scientists think it could help explain our universe if ever detected. One Alberta researcher is trying to build a machine to detect it.

We may already have had our first-ever encounter with dark matter, according to researchers who say a mysteriously high-energy particle detected in 2023 is not a neutrino after all, but something ...

These artist concepts visualize our Milky Way galaxy seen face-on and edge-on. The galaxy's arms are where Bernet and his team found dark matter spirals in simulated galaxies like the Milky Way ...

As the Vera C. Rubin Observatory surveys the night sky, astrophysicists expect to unlock the secrets of dark matter, dark energy and cosmic phenomena that go “bang!” As the Vera C. Rubin ...

Credit: Physical Review Letters (2025). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.251001 Dark matter, although not visible, is believed to make up most of the total mass of the universe.

Dark matter clumps could act as stellar lampshades, drifting between Earth and distant stars, dimming them by an almost imperceptible amount, a new study suggests. If this idea is correct, such ...