Dark matter is special in that it doesn't emit, absorb or interact with light, so science had to find a more creative way to ...

A new study says observations from the NASA Fermi space telescope suggest a halo of dark matter around the center of our ...

In the early 1930s, Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky observed galaxies in space moving faster than their mass should allow, ...

More than 100 years after its existence was predicted, scientists report that they have, for the first time, seen dark matter ...

NASA has finished building the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, completing assembly of the agency’s next flagship ...

A team of astronomers say they've made the first ever detection of dark matter by examining gamma rays near the center of the ...

NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope may have provided the first direct evidence of dark matter, allowing the invisible ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has been used to study NGC 1052-DF2 — a galaxy that is lacking dark matter. Credit: NASA's Goddard ...

Dark matter has never been directly observed in action, as it does not emit, absorb, or reflect light, which makes dark matter invisible to conventional telescopes. A team of researchers, led by ...

The final integration of the telescope's major observatory components took place on Nov. 25 inside NASA's Goddard Space ...

Nearly a century after astronomers first proposed dark matter to explain the strange motions of galaxies, scientists may finally be catching a glimpse of it. A University of Tokyo researcher analyzing ...

“If this is correct, to the extent of my knowledge, it would mark the first time humanity has ‘seen’ dark matter. And it ...