The mystery of dark matter—unseen, pervasive, and essential in standard cosmology—has loomed over physics for decades. In new research, I explore a different possibility: Rather than postulating new ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Schematically illustration of the resonant annihilation of dark matter into Standard Model particles through a dark photon ...

A ghostly ring of dark matter captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. Galaxies, including the one we call home, are within halos of dark matter. But what exactly dark matter is remains something of a ...

The mysterious substance that binds galaxies together could naturally be "in tune" with a hidden fifth dimension, according to a new University of Sheffield theory aiming to shed light on one of ...

Australia's bid to detect elusive dark matter has taken a major step forward, with new research confirming that cosmic radiation levels deep inside the Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory (SUPL) ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "Understanding dark matter would represent a profound advance in humanity's knowledge of the cosmos and what it is made of," team ...

UCLA's Alvine Kamaha and her colleagues on the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment observed an event that could be interpreted as a signal from WIMPs — weakly interacting massive particles Dark matter is the ...

A single particle interaction could be a signal that scientists detected dark matter. The LUX-ZEPLIN main detector in a surface lab before installation underground. (Credit: Matthew Kapust/Sanford ...

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

Dark matter remains one of the most intriguing components of the cosmos, making up about 27% of the universe's total mass-energy content. It cannot be seen directly, yet its presence is inferred ...

The mysterious substance that binds galaxies together could naturally be 'in tune' with a hidden fifth dimension, according to a new theory aiming to shed light on one of science's biggest enigmas: ...