An observatory in Chile is taking a timelapse of the sky over the Southern Hemisphere to help scientists measure the ...

Of all the sciences, physics is unique in that it can come to a broad consensus with math alone—very little tactile evidence required. Never has this been the case more than with dark matter. Though ...

Dark matter accounts for 85% of the matter in the universe, but scientists still do not know what it is made of. A study, ...

First and perhaps most perplexingly, researchers remain unsure about what exactly dark matter is. Originally, some scientists ...

After decades of hunting, physicists still don’t know what makes up most of the universe’s matter. Now they need to cast a wider net.

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 ...

The vast majority of matter is dark – invisible until it is detected only through its gravitational effects. The newly discovered object could be a clump of dark matter, or it could also be a compact, ...

For a while now, there has been a problematic mystery at the heart of the standard cosmological model. Although all observations support the expanding universe model, observations of the early period ...

There is a lot of matter in our galaxy that we can’t see. It’s called dark matter. Have you ever looked up at the night sky and thought it looks like a lot of empty space? Turns out, it’s not empty ...

Dark matter makes up most of the mass in galaxies and galaxy clusters. In fact, scientists estimate that ordinary matter makes up only about 5% of the universe, while dark matter makes up about 27%.