Like going to the eye doctor for a better pair of specs, astrophysicists are getting some upgraded lenses — both humanmade and natural — for a closer look at dark matter. An international team of ...

A galaxy made almost entirely of dark matter, an elusive form of matter that doesn’t interact with light, was spotted by Hubble 250 million light-years from Earth.

Astronomers working with the Hubble Space Telescope have identified a nearly invisible galaxy in the Perseus Cluster that appears to consist almost entirely of dark matter. Designated Candidate Dark ...

Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have been able to compile the most detailed map of dark matter ever produced, exposing the ghostly scaffolding that has guided the growth of ...