Latest about Dark Matter
Dark matter's secret identity could be hiding in distorted 'Einstein rings'
Researchers may be a step closer to identifying dark matter after studying unusual cases of gravitational lensing caused by "dark matter halos" surrounding distant galaxies.
The universe is slightly hotter than it should be. 'Dark photons' could be to blame.
Intergalactic gas clouds are slightly hotter than they should be, new research claims, and theoretical particles called 'dark photons' could explain it.
Large Hadron Collider switches on at highest ever power level to look for dark matter
Physicists say the third run will collect more data than the previous two combined.
Dark matter could be a cosmic relic from extra dimensions
Massive gravitons may have formed a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang, in abundances great enough to account for dark matter.
Cosmic robbery could explain lack of dark matter in some galaxies
Large galaxies may steal dark matter from smaller galaxies they nearly collide with, new research suggests.
Shredded 'stellar streams' could lead to the Milky Way's missing dark matter
Astronomers mapped 12 stellar streams, which could lead to the Milky Way's missing dark matter.
This faraway galaxy may be completely devoid of dark matter
On the surface, a galaxy 250 million light-years from Earth seems like any other, but a deeper look reveals a puzzling quirk: It seems to have no dark matter.
Dark matter may spawn more of itself from ordinary matter, like a cosmic ice-9
A new mechanism for dark matter creation could explain the current six-to-one ratio of dark matter to matter.
