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.

Galaxies, including the one we call home, are within halos of dark matter. But what exactly dark matter is remains something ...

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

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 ...

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 group of undergraduate students pulled off something remarkable: they built their own dark matter detector and used it to ...

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

Only about 5% of the universe is composed of normal matter that we can directly observe, while the remaining 95% is widely ...

Particle physics continues to probe the most fundamental constituents of matter while dark matter research seeks to illuminate the unseen mass that permeates our Universe. Recent efforts have ...

Dark centre? A simulated version of the Milky Way galaxy. (Courtesy: AIP/ A. Khalatyan) Astronomers have long puzzled over the cause of a mysterious “glow” of very high energy gamma radiation ...