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

Searches for dark matter particles have come up empty so far, driving theorists to get more creative with their ideas.

Nearly 4,000 m beneath the Pacific, in water so dark that sunlight has never penetrated, scientists have stumbled on a new way that oxygen can appear where it should not exist. The finding, quickly ...

Scientists have discovered a giant cosmic filament where galaxies spin in sync with the structure that holds them together.

In collisions at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, hotter than the Sun’s core by a staggering margin, scientists have finally ...

Euclid launched in 2023 on a six-year mission to map the cosmos at scale, observing billions of galaxies stretching as far ...

Jared Isaacman will lead NASA as it sends astronauts around the moon and hopes to launch a space telescope to study dark ...

What is the nature of dark matter? A new experiment led by Columbia University physics professors aims to find out.