Dark matter appears to hold galaxies together, yet it has never shown itself directly. A new theory suggests the missing ...

Two experiments designed to detect signals directly found no evidence for the signal reported by an earlier experiment.

Scientists have shown that the giant planets of the solar system could help uncover the nature of dark matter, using faint ...

Over the past decades, many research teams worldwide have been trying to detect dark matter, an elusive type of matter that does not emit, reflect or absorb light, using a variety of highly sensitive ...

Researchers in the U.S. have carried out the most stringent tests to date of the idea that an ultraviolet glow in the ...

The evidence for dark matter is everywhere and the evidence for dark matter is nothing. Galaxies rotate in ways that make no ...

A 2021 paper proposed that fermionic dark matter could inhabit a warped fifth dimension. The model uses a new scalar field as ...

Dark matter may not have needed a calm, cold start to help build the universe. That is the challenge raised by new work from researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities and Université ...

Six thousand eight hundred feet below the floor of an active nickel mine in northern Ontario, something has gone extremely cold. Not cold in the way of a walk-in freezer, or a liquid nitrogen tank, or ...

The mysterious substance called dark matter is intrinsically invisible. It cannot be directly observed—rather, its presence is inferred by its gravitational influence on the universe, such as binding ...

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 ...

Have you ever stood by the sea and been overwhelmed by its vastness, by how quickly it could roll in and swallow you? Evidence suggests that we are suspended in a cosmic sea of dark matter, a ...