"If we see the lampshade effect in action, it will tell us about what dark matter could be, which is exciting." ...

Two theoretical physicists at the University of California, Davis, have a new candidate for dark matter, and a possible way to detect it. They presented their work June 6 at the Planck 2019 conference ...

Researchers, in a recent Physical Review Letters paper, introduce a new mechanism that may finally allow ultralight dark ...

Inspired by superconductivity, a strange new theory that seeks to explain dark matter might explain dark energy, too ...

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

As a dark matter candidate, Bashkanov said the d-star has a number of advantages. Firstly, they know it exists. Second, in the early universe, there were lots of quarks at high densities, ...

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 ...

Dark matter is believed to outnumber regular matter by a ratio of five-to-one, but so far it’s never been directly detected. Now, nuclear physicists have proposed a new candidate particle that ...

Scientists searching for the elusive dark matter, which appears to make up 80 percent of the matter in the universe, have managed to narrow down the range of possible suspects. Researchers at the ...

Most proposals for dark matter candidates use the simplest possible extension to the Standard Model. ... Indeed, if dark matter asteroids do exist and behave as the researchers predict, ...

As technology improves, scientists discover new ways to search for theorized dark matter particles called axions. In the early 1970s, physics had a symmetry problem. According to the Standard Model, ...