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

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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 ...

New research suggests sub-stellar objects called dark dwarfs could glow forever on dark matter energy. Could they reveal secrets about the universe’s hidden mass?

Dark matter may ignite brown dwarfs into glowing “dark dwarfs” Only self-annihilating dark matter types would create this ...

Suppose the most hesitant twinges at the heart of the Milky Way are not failed stars, but universe-powered cosmic labs powered by the universe’s most mysterious ingredient? New theoretical studies ...

Some faint stars may not burn with fusion but with dark matter itself. These "dark dwarfs" could be the long-awaited clue to what makes up most of the universe.