A research team led by Prof. Wang Huiyuan from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) has made a ...

In a first-of-its-kind test, scientists used a levitated magnet to search for dark matter, the unidentified substance believed to be present throughout the cosmos. If dark matter is made up of ...

For a while now, there has been a problematic mystery at the heart of the standard cosmological model. Although all ...

A team of researchers proposes a surprising origin for dark matter. Their model draws inspiration from the remarkable ...

Dark matter may have started as light-like particles that abruptly became heavy—a cosmic twist rooted in spin and ...

Dark matter makes up a large portion of the universe, but we've never seen it. Here's what we know, what it might be, and why it could change everything. More than 80% of the universe's matter is ...

Dark matter, though invisible, weighs heavily on how we understand the universe. Its gravity sculpts galaxies, holds clusters together, and shapes cosmic evolution—yet we still don’t know what ...

Dartmouth researchers propose a novel theory suggesting dark matter originated from high-energy, massless particles in the early universe. These particles collided and rapidly gained mass ...

A team of researchers from Dartmouth College has proposed a new hypothesis that could verifiably explain the central enigma of cosmology: What is the dark matter that makes up 85 percent of our ...