Dark matter isn’t visible to the human eye, or even telescopes, but there is an ingenious way to map its presence across the universe.

Dark matter is more than five times as abundant as all the visible matter in the universe. So why can't we see any of it?

Dark matter makes up a large portion of the universe, but we've never seen it. Here's what we know, what it might be, and why it could change everything.

Dark matter is one of nature's most confounding mysteries. It keeps particle physicists up at night and cosmologists glued to ...

The team mapped the distribution of dark matter along a straight line through space at a higher resolution than ever before, and it may help us close in on what dark matter actually is.

Dark matter makes up a large portion of the universe, yet it remains undetected.

The major thing we know about dark matter, and the whole reason for the invention of the idea, is what it does. It pulls on things, the way matter does. It seems like it has gravity.

The map shows regions the distribution of mass extending essentially as far we can see back in time; it uses the cosmic microwave background as a backdrop for the dark matter portrait.

Scientists have created a new map of the dark matter in the universe. Using radiation left over from the Big Bang, researchers mapped the gravitational effects of the mysterious substance.

Dark matter is more than five times as abundant as all the visible matter in the universe. So why can't we see any of it?