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

In addition, astrophysical observations had revealed that occasionally, white dwarfs would cool off way faster than expected.

But the Big Bang theory predicts that about 5% of the universe's contents should be atoms made of protons, neutrons and ...

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

Fusion reactors may not only generate clean energy but also produce axions, particles linked to dark matter, according to a ...

A new computational breakthrough is giving scientists a clearer view into how dark matter structures evolve. Dark matter has remained one of the biggest mysteries in cosmology for almost a hundred ...

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

New DES and DESI data challenge an ever-expanding universe, pointing instead to an eventual Big Crunch. The Supreme Court ...

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

Scientists search for "decaying" dark matter (DDM) because it offers unique signatures like specific X-ray or gamma-ray lines ...

A research team from the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory (XAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed an ...

Normal matter – which makes up everything we see and touch – isn’t the only type of matter present in the universe.