The new study reports the detection of a mysterious halo-like glow of gamma rays around the Milky Way, peaking sharply at ...
We can't see dark matter directly, so studying it pushes the boundaries of our creativity as scientists. How exciting, says ...
Dark matter was first proposed in 1933 when scientists observed that galaxies were spinning too rapidly. They should have ...
Physicists using near-absolute-zero detectors have reached unprecedented sensitivity in the hunt for light dark matter. A ...
What was once the leading explanation for dark matter may have simply been underestimating the mass of the particles that ...
Dark matter is one of the great enigmas of the universe and, in efforts to determine its existence and nature, a new study ...
Researchers from Ohio State University have come up with a novel method to detect dark matter based on existing meteor-detecting technology. Using ground-based radar to search for ionization trails, ...
What we see in our universe only accounts for roughly five per cent of what’s out there. The remaining 95 per cent is invisible. But now, a researcher at the University of Tokyo says he's seen at ...
Fish school, insects swarm and birds fly in murmurations. Now, new research finds that on the most basic level, this kind of group behavior forms a new kind of active matter, called a swirlonic ...
Planets, stars, and other cosmic objects are made up of matter, as are the atoms that exist even in our own bodies. But matter is not all that makes up the universe, and on the cosmic scale it is ...