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

Such an exponential expansion may seem minor, but it is equivalent to a grape in the palm of your hand swelling to become ...

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

Detecting dark matter—the mysterious substance that holds galaxies together—is one of the greatest unsolved problems in ...

If dark matter truly behaves as a superfluid filled with quantized vortices, it could revolutionize both cosmology and particle physics. Such a model naturally explains how galaxies can rotate ...

Tohoku University researchers have found a way to make quantum sensors more sensitive by connecting superconducting qubits in ...

An international team of researchers led by the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) has shed light on a ...

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Because we haven't found anything yet, we've started to wonder if dark matter might be lighter or heavier than we thought. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

An astronomical "conspiracy" about how stars and dark matter interact has been disproved by scientists. This debunked theory was originally suggested to explain why matter appears to decrease in ...

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