If not in visible stars and galaxies, the most likely hiding place for the matter is in the dark space between galaxies.

Nearly a century after astronomers first proposed dark matter to explain the strange motions of galaxies, scientists may finally be catching a glimpse of it. A University of Tokyo researcher analyzing ...

In the leading model of cosmology, most of the universe is invisible: a combined 95% is made of dark matter and dark energy.

Scientists may have "seen" dark matter for the first time, thanks to NASA's Fermi gamma-ray space telescope. If so, this ...

“If this is correct, to the extent of my knowledge, it would mark the first time humanity has ‘seen’ dark matter. And it ...

The universe has revealed a surprising pattern as a group of galaxies inside a huge dark matter filament has been found rotating in the same direction as the filament itself. This unusual finding ...

Research published Tuesday by a Japanese astrophysicist says gamma rays may have been generated by the collision of dark ...

Astronomers have long puzzled over the cause of a mysterious “glow” of very high energy gamma radiation emanating from the centre of our galaxy. One possibility is that dark matter – the unknown ...

A team of astronomers say they've made the first ever detection of dark matter by examining gamma rays near the center of the ...

The blank horizontal bar is the galactic plane area, which was excluded from the analysis to avoid strong astrophysical ...

An international team of astronomers led by researchers from the Netherlands has found no trace of dark matter in the galaxy AGC 114905, despite taking detailed measurements over a course of fourty ...

A scientist analyzing Fermi telescope data found a strange glow around the Milky Way that looks like it could be coming from ...