Smooth filaments stretching for many light-years, seen by the powerful space telescope, could indicate what the right "recipe ...

The James Webb Space Telescope was built to see the first galaxies, but it is rapidly becoming something stranger: a ...

Scientists suggest that the dark matter may have powered the universe’s first stars. This allows them to shine before nuclear ...

Normal matter – which makes up everything we see and touch – isn’t the only type of matter present in the universe.

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Robert Lea (created with Canva) Our common understanding of the universe tells us that ...

About 30 years ago an "ideas guy" and a team builder joined forces to search for the invisible bulk of existence. Over a decade ago, dark-matter experts Daniel Akerib and Thomas Shutt joined the ...

Researchers have created a fully relativistic model showing that gravitational waves might carry hidden clues about dark ...

A new study by researchers at the University of Amsterdam shows how gravitational waves from black holes can be used to reveal the presence of dark matter and help determine its properties. The key is ...

Most of the universe cannot be seen with any telescope, and that is not because scientists lack powerful tools. It is because ...

Although dark matter is invisible, its various effects can still sometimes be seen—such as in this Hubble Space Telescope image of the galaxy cluster Abell 370 some four billion light-years from Earth ...

Australian researchers have played a central role in a landmark result from the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment in South ...