A new study suggests the Milky Way’s gamma-ray glow could be a dark matter signal shaped by ancient galactic mergers.

Researchers suggest that dark matter might subtly color light red or blue as it passes through, revealing traces of its ...

Tohoku University researchers have found a way to make quantum sensors more sensitive by connecting superconducting qubits in ...

A gamma ray glow at our galaxy’s center has puzzled scientists for almost two decades. New computer simulations back the ...

Researchers may have identified what could be a compelling clue in the ongoing hunt to prove the existence of dark matter. A mysterious diffuse glow of gamma rays near the center of the Milky Way has ...

Detecting dark matter—the mysterious substance that holds galaxies together—is one of the greatest unsolved problems in ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An illustration shows a galaxy embedded in a halo of dark matter; the search for this mysterious ...

The aptly named SWEET project was developed by a team of researchers to use sugar crystals for detecting hypothetical light ...

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