Imagine a star powered not by nuclear fusion, but by one of the universe’s greatest mysteries—dark matter. Scientists have ...

Dark matter is one of nature's most confounding mysteries. It keeps particle physicists up at night and cosmologists glued to ...

Dark matter, which makes up about ... Think of this as being like the cosmic equivalent of an ice skater drawing in their arms to increase their rate of spin. Luckily for scientists, ...

Because it doesn't interreact with light or electromagnetism, dark matter exists to us only through its influence on visible ...

"If dark matter does not behave like standard cold dark matter and the streaming effect isn't present, then these bright dwarf galaxies won't be found and we need to go back to the drawing board." ...

Dark matter could act as a cosmic matchmaker between dark matter and merging supermassive black holes, ... the supermassive black holes that sit at their centers draw together as well.

For nearly a century, scientists around the world have been searching for dark matter—an invisible substance believed to make ...

But in an era of dwindling hope for dark matter, polarizing is good; more people should be thinking big and drawing heat like Verlinde. Dark matter experiments of the past decade were built ...

In a chilled lab where temperatures drop close to absolute zero, a speck of magnet hovers in place. This tiny magnet, ...

Because dark matter permeates space, the researchers say that the massive gravity of gas giant planets should draw dark matter particles into an invisible cloud surrounding and permeating them.

But axions were pushed aside as the WIMPs hypothesis gained more steam. Back-of-the-envelope calculations showed that the ...

Thus, dark matter's gravitational impact is extremely spread out and, it turns out, can only be observed when we look at the large-scale distribution of visible matter in the universe: ...