"It marks an exciting step forward in our understanding of dark matter and the dynamics of the Milky Way." A perplexing "break" in a stream of stars around the Milky Way could be the result of ...

One mile beneath a mountain in Italy, scientists at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory fill a particle detector with liquid xenon, hoping to observe evidence of dark matter. The idea is that ...

Dark matter could be the result of fermions pushed into a warped fifth dimension. This theory builds on an idea first stated in 1999, but is unique in its findings. Dark matter makes up 75 percent ...

A recent study suggests that a dense, self-interacting dark matter subhalo could be responsible for the intriguing spur and gap features in the GD-1 stellar stream, challenging existing dark matter ...

Researchers led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a breakthrough technique that could lay the foundations for detecting the universe's "dark matter" and ...

Dec. 20, 2024 — One of the biggest mysteries in science -- dark energy -- doesn't actually exist, according to researchers looking to solve the riddle of how the Universe is expanding.

Dark matter is an enigmatic invisible substance supplying five-sixths of the matter of the universe. Unlike photons, the particles of light, the particles of dark matter need to have non-zero mass ...

One mile beneath a mountain in Italy, scientists at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory fill a particle detector with liquid xenon, hoping to observe evidence of dark matter. The idea is that, free ...

Dark energy and dark matter refers to the unseen energy and matter components of the Universe. Dark matter is invisible, non-baryonic matter hypothesized to explain phenomena including ...

The mystery of dark matter could be solved in as little as 10 seconds. When the next nearby supernova goes off, any gamma-ray telescope pointing in the right direction might be treated to more than a ...

Well, the whole mess just goes away if axion-like particles – one of the leading candidates for the mysterious dark matter that makes up most of the mass in the Universe, as predicted by string theory ...

By studying over 26,000 of these ultra-dense stars, scientists are getting closer to using them as natural test labs for exploring extreme gravity and the elusive particles that make up dark matter.