Naturally, there have been several proposed ideas: what if general relativity is wrong; what if dark matter doesn't exist; what if the rate of time isn't uniform; heck, what if the entire universe ...

Dark matter, the invisible substance that makes up a significant portion of the universe, continues to puzzle scientists. For years, we’ve known it exists due to its gravitational effects on ...

Dark matter is invisible. It's all around us. And we have no idea what it is. The universe is so much bigger than what people can see. Visible matter — which makes up the things you can see like ...

A new method proposes detecting dark compact objects, potential dark matter candidates, by observing the dimming of starlight as these objects pass between Earth and distant stars.

This missing matter is often called called dark matter. It makes up over a quarter of the matter in the universe. Scientists don't know what it is. Yet scientists do know that whatever this matter ...

dark energy and dark matter, collectively referred to as the dark universe. Here's the idea. The new concept replaces the dark universe with a multitude of step-like bursts called "transient ...

AI-powered image recognition could give researchers a new tool in hunt for dark matter. It sounds fantastical, but it's a reality for the scientists who work at the world's largest particle ...

Observing a distant and messy collision between galaxy clusters, astronomers have discovered that dark matter, the most mysterious "stuff" in the universe, passed through the wreckage like a ...