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

When an invisible entity making up 85% of the universe's mass stumps the greatest scientific minds of our time, awe is an ...

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

Dark matter could be made from tiny black holes formed when so-called "dark baryons" collapse, scientists suggest. Or, alternatively, dark matter could be a type of particle created by a form of ...

SNOLAB experiment, located deep in a nickel mine, aims to detect signs of dark matter particles passing through the Earth.

Fusion power has long been sold as the technology that could light our cities with the same process that powers the stars. Now a new line of research suggests those same reactors might also be ...

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 ...

The idea of crowdsourcing scientific research is a powerful one. When a problem is big — really, really big — why not enlist an equally big army of people to solve it? For several years now, the ...