Dark matter doesn't absorb or give off light so scientists can't study it directly. But they can observe how its gravity ...

The mystery of dark matter—unseen, pervasive, and essential in standard cosmology—has loomed over physics for decades. In new ...

A new high-resolution map of distant galaxies may help scientists understand the mysterious dark matter holding the universe ...

Data from the James Webb Space Telescope was used to create the largest, highest resolution map of dark matter, just ...

(CNN) — At the center of our galaxy, there’s a mysterious, diffuse glow given off by gamma rays — powerful radiation usually emitted by high-energy objects such as rapidly rotating or exploding stars.

WIMPs (weakly interacting massive particles) are one of the most serious contenders for dark matter—the “missing” mass supposedly constituting 85% of our universe. Given its elusiveness, dark matter ...

For nearly a century, scientists have been searching for dark matter — the fundamental, invisible substance believed to make up most of the cosmos. After nine decades of sustained effort, a new study ...

Researchers at the ATLAS collaboration have been searching for signs of new particles in the dark sector of the universe, a hidden realm that could help explain dark matter. In some theories, this ...

Pulsating remnants of stars hint at a clump of invisible matter thought to be about 10 million times the sun’s mass.

An artistic illustration of the mechanism proposed by Professor Stefano Profumo where quantum effects near the rapidly expanding cosmic horizon after the Big Bang gravitationally generate dark matter ...

Recently, scientists from institutions including the University of Science and Technology of China made a fundamental ...

Growing up, Riley Carpenter ’25 was endlessly curious. Between marathons of “How It’s Made” on the Science Channel and J.R.R. Tolkien’s “Silmarillion,” he always had a desire to know how complex ...