Dark matter particles could be mediators of the interaction between electrons and atomic nuclei, as shown by a study ...

New research suggests that dark matter could gather over vast periods of time at the heart of Jupiter-sized planets, creating black holes that eat these worlds from within. This striking concept may ...

Dark matter is one of the biggest puzzles in science. Although it makes up about 85 percent of all matter in the universe, it has never been directly observed. You can’t see it, touch it, or hold it ...

A good chunk of cosmology is riding on whether dark matter exists or not. But what makes us so certain that dark matter is ...

A new type of self-interacting dark matter could provide solutions to three very different cosmic puzzles, new research ...

When an invisible entity making up 85% of the universe's mass stumps the greatest scientific minds of our time, awe is an ...

Scientists propose early cosmic waves formed dark matter, linking its origin to gravitational ripples from the young Universe ...

Few things in the universe are as perplexing as dark matter — the invisible and exotic “stuff” that is thought to make up most of the matter in galaxies. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get ...

Mysterious blasts of radio waves from across the universe called fast radio bursts help astronomers catalog matter. ESO/M. Kornmesser, CC BY-SA Chris Impey, University of Arizona If you look across ...