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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Maybe dark matter talks to itself, according to a new proposal, and that might just explain two cosmological mysteries at once. Dark matter is the name astronomers give to the mysterious substance ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. When it comes to understanding the fabric of the universe, most of what scientists think exists is consigned to a dark, murky domain.

Dark matter may come in multiple particles and weights, similar to the ordinary elements on the periodic table, a new theory suggests. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

If you’re looking for intergalactic eye candy and cosmic bling, it’s hard to beat Abell 3827, a crowded cluster of hundreds of galaxies about 1.3 billion light-years from Earth. Hubble Space Telescope ...

About 30 years ago an "ideas guy" and a team builder joined forces to search for the invisible bulk of existence. Over a decade ago, dark-matter experts Daniel Akerib and Thomas Shutt joined the ...

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 ...