Much like Dark Helmet instructed his cronies in "Spaceballs," we combed ... In terms of recent character developments in the ...

Imagine a star powered not by nuclear fusion, but by one of the universe’s greatest mysteries—dark matter. Scientists have ...

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 captured by stars and accumulate inside them. If that happens, it might also interact with itself and ...

Astronomers propose dark dwarfs—objects powered by dark matter annihilation—may exist near the galactic center, offering key clues about WIMPs.

The latest experiment also represents the first time the LZ team applied a technique called “salting,” in which false WIMP signals were added in advance. This helped the researchers—who, of course, ...

Some faint stars may not burn with fusion but with dark matter itself. These "dark dwarfs" could be the long-awaited clue to what makes up most of the universe.

Some of the faintest, coldest stars in the universe may be powered not by fusion—but by the annihilation of dark matter deep ...

Scientists have found themselves baffled by a mysterious black goo-like substance that was discovered on a ship docked in ...

Dark matter remains one of science's deepest mysteries. It makes up about 25% of our universe, yet scientists only observe ...

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