Scientists use 3D galaxy maps to uncover hidden details about dark matter and the universe’s large-scale structure.

Space-time may hide a bizarre new kind of black hole that causes Einstein’s theory of gravity to fail – and could solve the ...

Detecting dark matter, the elusive type of matter predicted to account for most of the universe's mass, has so far proved to ...

The University of California San Diego is positioning itself as a leader in astronomical research as its new Department of ...

After decades of study, scientists sound genuinely optimistic about the possibility of detecting primordial black holes, which might explain dark matter.

New research from Mathew Madhavacheril and Ph.D. candidate Joshua Kim of the University of Pennsylvania and their collaborators has combined cosmological data from two major surveys of the universe’s ...

Researchers hypothesize a fifth force of nature that could explain the intricate relationship between dark matter and dark ...

"This process is like a cosmic CT scan, where we can look through different slices of cosmic history and track how matter clumped together at different epochs." ...

The majority of our evidence for dark matter’s existence comes from observing visible (or baryonic) matter that does not ...

The Hollywood veteran behind The Dark Night, Blade and Foundation is crowdsourcing a new sci-fi franchise called Emergence, ...

Computer algorithms can model the universe, matching simulations to observations and revealing the distribution of dark ...