Smooth filaments stretching for many light-years, seen by the powerful space telescope, could indicate what the right "recipe ...

Australian researchers have played a central role in a landmark result from the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment in South ...

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

Dark matter is an elusive type of matter that does not emit, reflect or absorb light, yet is estimated to account for most of ...

The universe is packed with riddles, but few are as stubborn or as fascinating as dark matter. First proposed in 1933 by ...

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

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For decades, scientists have searched for dark matter to explain what they observe in the universe. Despite massive detectors ...

In the dense environment of the early universe, dark matter particles would collide with, and annihilate, each other, ...

Far beneath the Black Hills of South Dakota, a tank of liquid xenon is quietly recording some of the faintest signals in the ...

In smaller dark stars, when their dark matter runs out, normal nuclear fusion can begin, and they gradually become normal ...

Scientists suggest that the dark matter may have powered the universe’s first stars. This allows them to shine before nuclear ...