Dark matter can't be too heavy or it might break our best model of the universe, new research suggests. We have an abundance ...

The nature of dark matter is largely unknown, but it is thought to have mass, which influences particle interactions in the universe through gravity. Dark matter may not interact much with visible ...

Detecting dark matter, the elusive type of matter predicted to account for most of the universe's mass, has so far proved to ...

Computer algorithms can model the universe, matching simulations to observations and revealing the distribution of dark ...

Dark Energy 'Doesn't Exist' So Can't Be Pushing 'Lumpy' Universe Apart Dec. 20, 2024 — One of the biggest mysteries in science -- dark energy -- doesn't actually exist, according to researchers ...

"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 ...

Observing the interactions between dark matter and so-called "dark photons" during a period after the Big Bang called the "cosmic dawn" could help shed light on the universe's most mysterious and ...

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 ...

Here’s how it works. Galaxies may be anchored to giant "dark stars" — clumps of invisible matter sitting at their cores, new research suggests. Although astronomers have an abundance of ...

The majority of our evidence for dark matter’s existence comes from observing visible (or baryonic) matter that does not ...

A perplexing "break" in a stream of stars around the Milky Way could be the result of dark matter — that is, if the mysterious cosmic stuff interacts with itself. The feature in question is in the ...