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

"Dark matter could be captured by stars and accumulate inside them. If that happens, it might also interact with itself and ...

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

Key Takeaways ・Scientists have used laser-excited thorium-229 to probe for ultralight dark matter, even without a fully built ...

There could be many more satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way than previously thought or observed, according to ...

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

"If we see the lampshade effect in action, it will tell us about what dark matter could be, which is exciting." ...

Scientists predict up to 100 invisible galaxies may orbit the Milky Way, hiding just beyond our current detection limits.

Some of the faintest, coldest stars in the universe may be powered not by fusion—but by the annihilation of dark matter deep ...

The latest experiment also represents the first time the LZ team applied a technique called “salting,” in which false WIMP signals were added in advance. This helped the researchers—who, of course, ...

If dark matter is cold, then it can clump up and aggregate more easily than if it was zooming through the vacuum of space—which it would be if all dark matter was “hot” or made of lighter ...

Dark matter behaves as a particle, and that’s fundamentally special compared to something that behaves as a field. There’s another disingenuous narrative being peddled recently by those who ...