The Universe hides many mysteries, and dark matter represents one of the greatest enigmas that scientists are trying to ...

In a groundbreaking cosmic test, researchers have discovered that dark matter behaves more conventionally than previously ...

Something is out there. As far as scientists know, just 15% of the matter in the universe is the ordinary kind we can see.

A new study in the journal Nature examines the distribution of dark matter in the universe, attempting to figure out if it obeys the same laws as regular matter. What it found suggests that dark ...

Astronomers have long puzzled over the cause of a mysterious “glow” of very high energy gamma radiation emanating from the ...

Dark matter is invisible. It's all around us. And we have no idea what it is. The universe is so much bigger than what people can see. Visible matter — which makes up the things you can see like the ...

Imagine a star powered not by nuclear fusion, but by one of the universe’s greatest mysteries—dark matter. Scientists have proposed the existence of “dark dwarfs,” strange glowing objects potentially ...

All the atoms and radiation in the universe make up less than 5 percent of its contents. The rest is composed of two invisible, enigmatic entities: dark matter and dark energy. Together they govern ...

Scientists at OIST have, for the first time, directly tracked the elusive “dark excitons” inside atomically thin materials. These quantum particles could revolutionize information technology, as they ...