The universe is packed with riddles, but few are as stubborn or as fascinating as dark matter. First proposed in 1933 by astronomer Fritz Zwicky, this elusive substance refuses to play by the rules: ...

Dark matter keeps getting blamed for the universe’s big patterns while staying stubbornly out of reach. You cannot see it, touch it, or capture it.

The spacecraft bus that will deliver NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope to its orbit and enable it to function once there is now complete after years of construction, installation, and testing.

Dark matter is real, according to most experts. However, some scientists still debate if it is real or not, and we do not know much about it. Dark matter is a mysterious and invisible substance that ...

In February of 2023, the Cubic Kilometer Neutrino Telescope (KM3NeT) detected a neutrino some 35 times higher in energy than any previous detection. A new study posits that this muon might be the ...

Dark matter, one of the Universe’s greatest mysteries, may have been born blazing hot instead of cold and sluggish as scientists long believed. New research shows that dark matter particles could have ...

Physicists have unveiled a new way to simulate a mysterious form of dark matter that can collide with itself but not with normal matter. This self-interacting dark matter may trigger a dramatic ...

The Condensed Matter and Materials Research Committee (CMMRC) is responsible for advising the National Academies' Board on Physics and Astronomy on the fields of condensed matter science and materials ...

Fine particle air pollution in the United States has decreased sharply over the past 40 years, but communities that were polluted four decades ago remain polluted today, according to research by two ...

Why Information, Not Matter, May Be the True Foundation of Reality - Rethinking Reality Through Physics, Information, ...