Besides particles like sterile neutrinos, axions and weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), a leading candidate for ...

Axions, hypothetical subatomic particles that were first proposed by theoretical physicists in the late 1970s, remain among ...

This candidate is a relatively new kid on the block. It's also known as ultralight axions, fuzzy dark matter or wave dark matter. If it exists, it's super-duper light, something like 10-22 ...

Three more dark-matter candidates have just bitten the dust. Since 2008, NASA's orbiting Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has been collecting evidence of the observable universe's most powerful ...

“Our first calculations indicate that condensates of d-stars are a feasible new candidate for dark matter,” says Daniel Watts, co-author of the study. “This new result is particularly ...

Two promising dark matter candidates (i.e., hypothetical particles that dark matter could be made of) are axions and dark photons. The MAgnetized Disk and Mirror Axion eXperiment (MADMAX ...

Some of these particles are "perfect candidates'' for dark matter, raising some interesting implications for how the elusive entity might behave, he added. "Unlike other 'particle' dark matter ...

open image in gallery Ph.D. candidate Keegan Walkup, left, and physicist Patrick Huber work in the new lab that Huber is establishing to look for evidence of dark matter traces inside the crystal ...

an international team of researchers propose a new form of the hypothetical substance that's lower in mass compared to other dark matter candidates, which could explain a mysterious phenomenon at ...

“We know that there is no viable [dark matter] candidate in the [standard model of physics],” the scientists say, “so already this fact asks for the presence of new physics ...

These light dark matter candidates are generally called sub-GeV (giga electronvolts) dark matter particles. Such dark matter particles may interact with their antiparticles. In our work ...

New data is telling us that Neutron stars may make one of the most popular dark matter candidates. Neutron stars aren't dark matter--we figured that out a while ago. But new research is telling us ...