Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: While dark matter continues to elude us—even massive detectors have failed to pick up any signals—there must be some element or substance that will ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dark matter may have started hot and cooled during reheating after the Big Bang. (CREDIT: NASA / Goddard Space Flight Center ...

A study by Dartmouth researchers proposes a new theory about the origin of dark matter, the mysterious and invisible substance thought to give the universe its shape and structure. The researchers ...

Dark matter remains one of science's deepest mysteries. It makes up about 25% of our universe, yet scientists only observe its gravitational effects. Although invisible, researchers continue searching ...

Giant worlds beyond the Solar System could be the probe we need to figure out how dark matter manifests in the Universe. According to a new study, one particular dark matter model could see the ...

Hints that dark matter might be destroying itself have flickered through astronomical data for more than a decade, but a new analysis claims the clearest signal yet of that violent process. Instead of ...

UC Santa Cruz physicist Stefano Profumo has put forward two imaginative but scientifically grounded theories that may help solve one of the biggest mysteries in physics: the origin of dark matter. In ...

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Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: For decades, scientists have searched for heavy dark matter particles, but no method has ever been able to detect them. The SWEET project was ...

For decades, scientists have searched for heavy dark matter particles, but no method has ever been able to detect them. The SWEET project was developed by a team of researchers to detect sugar ...