NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, set to begin operations in 2027, will revolutionize our understanding of dark ...

Dark stars were first suggested in 2007, but now observations with the James Webb Space Telescope hint that we may have ...

Scientists have recently developed a new way to detect dark matter, the mysterious substance that makes up about 85% of the ...

"It's all about mindset in science, where a null result can be as impactful as a positive result." The quest to find dark matter is a curious one. It is, quite literally, a shot in the dark.

Scientists call that dark matter, because it does not interact with light and is invisible. In the 1970s, American astronomers Vera Rubin and W. Kent Ford confirmed dark matter’s existence by ...

As it does this, Rubin's wide field-of-view will reveal how a web of dark matter distorts images of distant galaxies, which will allow scientists to better map the mysterious substance.

To dark matter and dark energy, add dark galaxies — collections of stars so sparse and faint that they are all but invisible. An artist’s depiction of hydrogen gas observed in the galaxy J0613 ...

By Chris Vognar In the new series “Dark Matter,” a physics professor (Joel Edgerton) is abducted off the streets of Chicago and replaced by an alternative version of himself. This version ...