What if I told you that while you can't see dark matter, maybe you can hear it? I know, I know, it sounds crazy…and it is ...

DAMIC-M works much like a digital camera. Instead of recording photons on a light-sensitive chip, it aims to capture dark matter particles. The silicon chips inside DAMIC-M will be surrounded by ...

Physicists chilled a sugar crystals then used them to search for dark matter. This new project is called SWEET.

A gamma ray glow at our galaxy’s center has puzzled scientists for almost two decades. New computer simulations back the ...

A new study suggests the Milky Way’s gamma-ray glow could be a dark matter signal shaped by ancient galactic mergers.

Dark energy and black holes are two of the most mysterious topics when it comes to space, but they might actually be linked.

Researchers suggest that dark matter might subtly color light red or blue as it passes through, revealing traces of its ...

The nature of dark matter is one of the leading mysteries in modern astronomy. In fact, the name "dark matter" is essentially a placeholder for something astronomers know is there but can't yet ...

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 ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The end is brutal for electrons hurtling at 99.9999999 percent of the speed of light through SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory’s ...

Have you ever stood by the sea and been overwhelmed by its vastness, by how quickly it could roll in and swallow you? Evidence suggests that we are suspended in a cosmic sea of dark matter, a ...