Shutterstock Dark matter is a difficult subject because, on the one hand, we don’t really know if it even exists at all. On ...

Astronomers have proposed a radical idea: dark matter—the mysterious substance making up most of the universe’s mass, might ...

A new theory suggests fusion reactors could help scientists search for axions, mysterious particles that may explain dark ...

A new theoretical study suggests fusion reactors could do more than generate energy, they might also produce particles linked to dark matter. Researchers at the University of Cincinnati say they have ...

A mysterious excess of far-ultraviolet light seen across the Milky Way could come from the annihilation of clumpy dark matter ...

A simple explanation of dark matter and antimatter, how they differ, how scientists study them, and why both are important to understanding the universe.

A professor at the University of Cincinnati and his colleagues have figured out something two of America's most famous ...

Computer simulations by astronomers support the idea that dark matter -- matter that no one has yet directly detected but which many physicists think must be there to explain several aspects of the ...

Most of the matter in the universe may be made out of particles that possess an unusual, donut-shaped electromagnetic field called an anapole. This proposal, which endows dark matter particles with a ...

There was an excellent live podcast with Rajendra Gupta, Brian Keating and several others a couple days ago discussing current data and findings. Its interesting as Gupta proposed a new paradigm that ...

Only a small part of the universe consists of visible matter. By far the largest part is invisible and consists of dark matter and dark energy. Very little is known about dark energy, but there are ...

"Dark photon" theory says light's interference patterns may emerge from quantum particles, not waves, upending centuries of ...