Something invisible holds the universe intact. It outweighs everything you can see—every star, every gas cloud, every ...

A good chunk of cosmology is riding on whether dark matter exists or not. But what makes us so certain that dark matter is ...

A ghostly ring of dark matter captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. Galaxies, including the one we call home, are within halos of dark matter. But what exactly dark matter is remains something of a ...

A student-led experiment has shown that the search for dark matter doesn’t always require massive infrastructure.

"The dark structures shaping galaxies today could be relics from a time before the Big Bang." The post Physicist Proposes ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures the magnificent starry population of the Coma Cluster of galaxies, one of the densest known galaxy collections in the universe — and where the effect of dark ...

A team of theoretical physicists has proposed a new particle that could act as a bridge between ordinary matter and dark matter, existing in a warped fifth dimension beyond space and time. Their model ...

Determining the nature of dark matter, the invisible substance that makes up most of the mass in our universe, is one of the greatest puzzles in physics. New results from the world’s most sensitive ...

UC Santa Cruz physicist Stefano Profumo has put forward two imaginative but scientifically grounded theories that may help solve one of the biggest mysteries in physics: the origin of dark matter. In ...

Scientists know that the elusive substance called dark matter makes up most of all the matter in the universe, but have never ...

The LZ's central detector in a surface lab clean room before delivery and installation underground. Located deep underground, the LZ (Lux-Zeplin) detector takes elaborate precautions to screen out ...