Researchers have been looking at everything, including supernovas, trying to uncover the mysteries of dark matter. Recent scientific studies suggest that dark matter might not be a particle hiding in ...

Sukanya Chakrabarti has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society, one of the most prestigious honours of the ...

UC Santa Cruz physicist Stefano Profumo has put forward two imaginative but scientifically grounded theories that may help solve one of the biggest mysteries in physics: the origin of dark matter. In ...

We have arguably already discovered dark matter, says columnist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein. To observe it, we will need to ...

Modern cosmology assumes dark matter exists. But what makes us so certain that dark matter is the answer—and what if we're wrong? Reading time 8 minutes A huge chunk of the universe is missing. It’s ...

There is one hidden "fourth spatial orientation" in the universe that we don't know about, and its thickness is much thinner ...

Dark Matter remains one of the biggest mysteries in fundamental physics. Many theoretical proposals (axions, WIMPs) and 40 years of extensive experimental search failed to provide any explanation of ...

Scientists from the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment reported a single particle interaction that remains unexplained. The detector, ...

Dark centre? A simulated version of the Milky Way galaxy. (Courtesy: AIP/ A. Khalatyan) Astronomers have long puzzled over the cause of a mysterious “glow” of very high energy gamma radiation ...

Faint hydrogen signals from the cosmic Dark Ages may soon help determine the mass of dark matter particles. Simulations suggest future Moon-based observatories could distinguish between warm and cold ...

P.M. and one mile beneath the Black Hills of South Dakota, there was a sudden flash of light. The tank is the centerpiece of the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment, ...