New research puts forward compelling new evidence that dark matter interacts with cosmic "ghost particles" called neutrinos.

Dark matter is an elusive type of matter that does not emit, absorb or reflect light, interacting very weakly with ordinary ...

Exotic hypothetical particles known as axions could potentially be produced inside a nuclear reactor, something The Big Bang ...

The search for dark matter has been largely unsuccessful so far. But now, scientists think they know where to look for it.

Scientists are a step closer to solving one of the universe's biggest mysteries as new research finds evidence that two of ...

Searches for dark matter particles have come up empty so far, driving theorists to get more creative with their ideas.

Nearly everything in the universe is made of mysterious dark matter and dark energy, yet we can’t see either of them directly ...

Scientists are uncovering dark matter, the biggest secret in the universe, with new detectors built to sense what was once ...

Axions are hypothetical light particles that could solve two different physics problems, as they could explain why some ...

For more than half a century, scientists have tried to understand dark matter—a mysterious form of matter that doesn’t emit or absorb light but is thought to make up most of the universe’s mass. Its ...

A new theory suggests fusion reactors could help scientists search for axions, mysterious particles that may explain dark ...