Dark matter, the elusive search: Latest discoveries and news

The Legacy Survey of Space and Time promises to be a game changer for dark energy explorers. Here's why.

Stars around the outskirts of our galaxy may hint at a secret about the Milky Way's dark matter.

NASA's forthcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will zoom in on streams of stars in the Andromeda galaxy to hunt for dark matter.

One astronomer proposes that, instead of building gigantic, expensive experiments on Earth, we should try another method of searching for dark matter: Looking to the stars.

It's possible, scientists say, that atom-sized black holes were produced during the first second of the universe's existence — and some might've gotten lodged within budding stars.

11 of the biggest stories about the smallest particles from 2023.

Gravitationally lensed images of two different supernovas in the same galaxy can be used to measure the expansion rate of the universe.

While hunting for dark matter, astronomers accidentally discovered the first known stellar stream stretching between galaxies. The trail of stars is also the longest ever seen.

Some physicists have hypothesized that in the earliest moments of the Big Bang, the forces of nature were so extreme and so exotic that they could have supported the growth of complex structures.

A new theory suggests the universe's most mysterious and dominant form of matter could exert a "dark force."