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

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.

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

“Cold dark matter”, meanwhile, represents our best understanding of the equally elusive dark matter, which makes up another 27% of the universe’s energy.

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

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 ...

Dark matter, widely known as the universe's most mysterious stuff, is rarer on Earth than gold — and that's despite the fact that dark matter outweighs "ordinary matter" by a staggering ratio of ...

"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 ...

Dark matter might not be one particular particle—it may be a whole hidden sector of dark particles and forces.

The NASA telescope, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (Roman), will be utilized for this purpose. Experts revealed their plans for this objective in a study published in The Astrophysical Journal.

Dark matter, which makes up 80 percent of all matter in the universe, may have formed in the very short time before the big bang.

Data from the OSIRIS-REx mission to Bennu place a ceiling on the strength of a hypothetical fifth force that could explain dark matter’s origins.