Astronomers working with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have produced the sharpest wide-area map of dark matter ever ...

A research team led by Prof. Wang Jianjun from the Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has produced a global map depicting the distribution and variation ...

Calculating the total mass of the universe is not simple, because most of the mass is invisible. In a pie chart of the contents of the universe, only 5 percent is normal matter, atoms that make up all ...

Two fresh ideas are giving scientists new ways to think about how the universe’s hidden mass came to be. Together, they paint a richer picture of dark matter’s origins and how we might still discover ...

The nature of dark matter is largely unknown, but it is thought to have mass, which influences particle interactions in the universe through gravity. Dark matter may not interact much with visible ...

The first time I heard about galaxies without dark matter, I was sitting in my very first graduate class at the University of São Paulo. A team had found a small, strange galaxy that appeared to ...

Dark matter is a hypothetical form of matter that is implied by gravitational effects that can't be explained by general relativity unless more matter is present in the universe than can be seen. It ...

An international research team has found that the Milky Way and its galactic neighbors appear to sit inside a vast, flat concentration of dark matter, a structure stretching roughly 10 megaparsecs and ...