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

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

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

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

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

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, ...

Related: We still don't know what dark matter is, but here's what it's not Now, a team of researchers says black holes may serve as the perfect test bed for finding this kind of dark matter. They ...

Astronomers want to explore a time before the stars and galaxies during the dawn of the cosmos with the UK-led CosmoCube ...

Thus, dark matter's gravitational impact is extremely spread out and, it turns out, can only be observed when we look at the large-scale distribution of visible matter in the universe: ...

They figure dark matter is fundamentally wrong, not something to be tweaked. That makes this new idea rather interesting. In work published on the arXiv preprint server, ...