As the Vera C. Rubin Observatory surveys the night sky, astrophysicists expect to unlock the secrets of dark matter, dark energy and cosmic phenomena that go “bang!” ...

We may already have had our first-ever encounter with dark matter, according to researchers who say a mysteriously high-energy particle detected in 2023 is not a neutrino after all, but something ...

Simulations find ghostly whirls of dark matter trailing galaxy arms Simulations suggest where we might look for the mystery material.

In work published on the arXiv preprint server, the authors look at both evolving dark energy and evolving dark matter and argue that the latter is a much better fit to observational data.

Laid off employees described Monday's reduction-in-force at Dark Matter Technologies as significant and unexpected.

Dartmouth researchers propose a new theory for the origin of dark matter, the invisible substance thought to give the universe its shape and structure. Their mathematical models show that ...

Dark matter with less mass could be driving a mysterious glow emanating from the Milky Way's core, according to a new study.

Tunable Dark Matter Detector Developed With Never-Before-Seen Quasiparticle The team call it a car radio approach to detect dark matter.

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

Dark matter is thought to outnumber regular matter by a factor of five to one – so why can’t we find the stuff? A new study proposes looking for it from space, using a satellite containing a ...

Dark matter can't be too heavy or it might break our best model of the universe, new research suggests. We have an abundance of evidence that something fishy is happening in the universe.

About 30 years ago an "ideas guy" and a team builder joined forces to search for the invisible bulk of existence.