Primordial black holes could inhabit the modern-day cosmos, making them responsible for the phenomenon of dark matter, according to new research.

If dark energy is weakening, as suggested by recent results, then the cosmos is far stranger than most physicists had ...

Astronomers think regular matter — that is, the stuff that isn't dark matter — makes up about 15% of the ... from the Big Bang that is prevalent throughout the universe. A map of the cosmic microwave ...

We can't see dark matter, but scientists have made the largest map yet of the invisible material that helps make up the universe. Researchers used a dark energy camera and a large telescope to ...

Astronomers have stumbled upon yet another ghostly galaxy that appears to be devoid of dark matter. Dark matter, the invisible substance astronomers believe dominates the universe, provides the ...

The detection of dark matter, an elusive form of matter believed to account for most of the universe's mass, remains a ...

Scientists have designed a 'cosmic radio' detector which could discover dark matter in 15 years. Scientists have designed a 'cosmic radio' detector which could discover dark matter in 15 years.

This makes them an interesting, if exotic, candidate for dark matter, new research suggests. In the 1970s, Stephen Hawking discovered that black holes aren't entirely black. Through a complex ...

New Technique to Detect Dark Matter Using Atomic Clocks and Lasers ... method gleans more information than its predecessors from maps showing how galaxies are clustered and threaded throughout ...