For more than half a century, scientists have tried to understand dark matter—a mysterious form of matter that doesn’t emit ...

Although it hasn’t detected dark matter yet, its developers say it offers an alternative path that is worth exploring ...

First and perhaps most perplexingly, researchers remain unsure about what exactly dark matter is. Originally, some scientists ...

"Dark matter could be captured by stars and accumulate inside them. If that happens, it might also interact with itself and annihilate, releasing energy that heats the star." ...

This particular isotope burns away quickly inside stars due to their intense heat. But in cooler objects like brown dwarfs, ...

Looking up at the night sky, it may seem our cosmic neighborhood is packed full of planets, stars and galaxies. But ...

Even though scientists are certain that dark matter exists — as all our universe's normal matter simply can't account for the way galaxies are kind of held together — they don't know what it is.

But axions were pushed aside as the WIMPs hypothesis gained more steam. Back-of-the-envelope calculations showed that the natural mass range of the WIMP would precisely match the abundances needed to ...

If so much dark matter exists, it must not only be non-luminous, it must not absorb light either. It couldn't simply be regular matter that is cold and dark, but must be something very different.

All the evidence for dark matter and dark energy seem to be way out there in the cosmos. It seems very suspicious that we don't see any evidence of it here in our own solar system. No one has ever ...

Now, the search for dark matter has received an unlikely assist from technology used in quantum computing research. In a new paper published in the journal Nature, my colleagues on the HAYSTAC team ...

Dark matter research is unsettling. Scientists were unnerved when they first noticed that galaxies don’t rotate by the same physics as a spinning plate. The stars at a galaxy’s edge rotate ...