This video explores the enigma of dark matter, an elusive substance believed to make up most of the universe's matter. While ...

Researchers have been looking at everything, including supernovas, trying to uncover the mysteries of dark matter. Recent scientific studies suggest that dark matter might not be a particle hiding in ...

There are excesses of gamma-ray emissions from the center of the Milky Way that are not fully understood. It has been ...

The first time I heard about galaxies without dark matter, I was sitting in my very first graduate class at the University of ...

Now scientists think fusion reactors could recreate theoretical dark matter particles, so-called axions, and give researchers ...

In the early 1930s, Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky observed galaxies in space moving faster than their mass should allow, prompting him to infer the presence of some invisible scaffolding—dark ...

Our Milky Way galaxy may not have a supermassive black hole at its center but rather an enormous clump of mysterious dark matter exerting the same gravitational influence, astronomers say. They ...

The Milky Way isn't just drifting through a giant void in space untethered, but is embedded in a sheet of dark matter like a ...

(via Sabine Hossenfelder) Physicists don’t actually know what the universe is really made of. The currently most popular theory is that most of the universe is made of dark matter, a mysterious type ...

This new map is not only the most detailed view of the universe’s invisible scaffolding to date, it also allows astronomers to look deeper into cosmic history. Reading time 3 minutes Dark matter—the ...

Now is a surreal time to be a dark matter researcher. Even as research funding is being cut by governments around the world, dark matter remains one of the biggest and most exciting open problems in ...

The hero is regular matter, which is everything we can see around us. Antimatter is the mirror-image explosive twin that ...