Black holes smashing together may churn dark matter "butter," scientists say.

If he can do that, it could lead to a fundamental shift in how we think about the universe and could even explain the ...

We may be more in the dark about dark matter than previously thought, according to a new analysis of distant galaxy clusters.

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to CuriousKidsUS@theconversation.com. Can we generate a way to interact with dark ...

Modern cosmology assumes dark matter exists. But what makes us so certain that dark matter is the answer—and what if we're ...

The new model is called WIFI, which stands for dark matter production during Warm Inflation via Freeze-In. According to a new model, dark matter particles (black dots) began forming as the universe ...

Scientists propose early cosmic waves formed dark matter, linking its origin to gravitational ripples from the young Universe.

Researchers propose a new theory for the origin of dark matter, the invisible substance thought to give the universe its shape and structure. Their mathematical models show that dark matter could have ...

Dark matter is thought to make up most of the matter in the universe, but the only way it interacts with its surroundings is ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures the magnificent starry population of the Coma Cluster of galaxies, one of the densest known galaxy collections in the universe — and where the effect of dark ...

At age 12, Tracy Slatyer felt sorry for a book. She read a newspaper article about how lots of people were buying A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking. “But then … nobody was actually reading it ...

The neutrino “fog” is beginning to materialize. Lightweight subatomic particles called neutrinos have begun elbowing their way into the data of experiments not designed to spot them. Two experiments, ...