After almost a century of speculation, proposals and searches for dark matter, physicists now know that it currently ...

As physicists continue their struggle to find and explain the origin of dark matter, the approximately 80% of the matter in ...

Gamma rays emerging from neutron stars at the hearts of supernova explosions could solve the mystery of dark matter — in just ...

Energy transition Dark matter may have been created after the Big Bang, something that could soon be tested by gravitational ...

Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy Cosmin Ilie and Richard Casey ’24 have explored an idea put forth by two ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has been used to study NGC 1052-DF2 — a galaxy that is lacking dark matter. Credit: NASA's Goddard ...

Nov. 21, 2024 — Axions are the most likely candidate for enigmatic dark matter that dominates the universe. Astrophysicists are searching for evidence of high-mass axions produced during supernovae.

Recent research unlocks new clues that could radically change the world's understanding of the origin of dark matter.

"If we can increase the detection sensitivity by two to three orders of magnitude, we expect that we will be close to possible traces of dark matter in 10 years," Liu Jianglai, a professor from ...

The search for dark matter is the sole obsession of many scientists and laboratories around the world. While some ...

The nature of dark matter has puzzled astronomers for 90 years since discovering that 85% of the universe’s matter is invisible through our telescopes. Currently, the most promising candidate for dark ...

We can't see dark matter, but scientists have made the largest map yet of the invisible material that helps make up the universe. Researchers used a dark energy camera and a large telescope to ...