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

However, the USTC researchers have revealed that dark matter halos hosting dwarf galaxies also exhibit halo bias, which is ...

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

Dark matter is more than five times as abundant as all the visible matter in the universe. So why can't we see any of it?

Researchers propose a new theory for the origin of dark matter, the invisible substance thought to give the universe its ...

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

A study by Dartmouth researchers proposes a new theory about the origin of dark matter, the mysterious and invisible ...

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

Collectively, such effects form a rich tapestry of 21-cm ... an unexpected interaction of ordinary matter with the colder dark matter—or that the background radiation was much stronger than ...

Since dark matter has only ever been observed through its effect on gravity, we know very little about what it’s made of. Indeed, various theories predict that dark matter particles could have masses ...

Some advocates worry the nation’s capital could become one of the riskiest places for undocumented immigrants to live as a ...

Most people have never heard of vacuum decay, but if it happened it would be the biggest natural disaster in the universe. If ...