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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The only thing stranger than science fiction is science fact. Dark Matters: Twisted But True, a short-lived documentary series ...

A new type of self-interacting dark matter could provide solutions to three very different cosmic puzzles, new research ...

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

Dark matter is one of nature's most confounding mysteries. It keeps particle physicists up at night and cosmologists glued to their supercomputer simulations. We know it's real because its mass ...

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 ...

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

Researchers may have identified what could be a compelling clue in the ongoing hunt to prove the existence of dark matter. A mysterious diffuse glow of gamma rays near the center of the Milky Way has ...

A mysterious glow of gamma rays at the center of the Milky Way has long hinted at dark matter, but the lack of similar signals in smaller dwarf galaxies has cast doubt on that idea. Now, researchers ...

The absence of a signal could itself be a signal. This is the idea behind a new study published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, which aims to redefine how we search for dark ...