Dark matter, the elusive search: Latest discoveries and news

On a morning train commute, this former scientist found a stellar surprise in an old Hubble image.

New research suggests that if dark matter is composed of "dark photons," it would not have heated the early cosmos like scientists thought.

"We are very happy to have discovered as-yet-undetected phenomena in the jet."

"The box is the most powerful thing ever created."

NASA's Roman Space Telescope is ready to launch on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket on Aug. 30. It'll map the entire sky like never before.

Two major mysteries in science, the nature of dark matter and the possible existence of higher dimensions, could be linked, new research suggests.

"With the launch of the ten-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time, the Rubin Observatory is opening a new window on the universe."

New research has failed to rule out self-annihilating dark matter as the source of a hotly debated gamma-ray emission known as the Galactic Center Excess radiating from the heart of the Milky Way.

A technique called echo mapping suggests supermassive black holes, like that at the heart of the Milky Way, are surrounded by clusters of dark matter.

Scientists think a new framework for quantum gravity could offer clues about a mysterious 5th fundamental force of nature.