Scientists have never directly detected dark matter, but some wonder if one high-energy detection in 2023 could be a rare indirect glimpse at it.

Even though it’s impossible to see it, dark matter fills the universe. And now, it seems increasingly likely it always has. An international team from Japan used the Subaru Telescope at the ...

For nearly a century, scientists around the world have been searching for dark matter—an invisible substance believed to make ...

Dark matter is one of nature's most confounding mysteries. It keeps particle physicists up at night and cosmologists glued to ...

Dark matter could be an entire dark sector of the universe, with its own particles and forces. Skip to main content. ... Although these samples would not require much material, ...

Dark matter, which makes up about 85% of the total matter in the universe, ... "Here, with the larger sample of pulsar accelerations, ...

The most precise accounting yet of dark energy and dark matter Date: October 19, 2022 Source: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Summary: Analyzing more than two decades' worth of ...

(Examples include type 1a supernovae, along a class of stars known as Cepheids.) ... “Cold dark matter”, meanwhile, represents our best understanding of the equally elusive dark matter, ...

"Certain types of millicharged dark matter or self-interacting dark matter models are some examples which may fit this description," Diamond said. "It is possible we have not seen this lampshade ...

But axions were pushed aside as the WIMPs hypothesis gained more steam. Back-of-the-envelope calculations showed that the ...

Y.-D. Tsai et al. Constraints on fifth forces and ultralight dark matter from OSIRIS-REx target asteroid Bennu. Communications Physics. Published online September 20, 2024. doi: 10.1038/s42005-024 ...

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (KRQE) – Seeing the invisible. That’s what a small group of scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory are trying to do with data recovered from a near-Earth asteroid, and ...