Six thousand eight hundred feet below the floor of an active nickel mine in northern Ontario, something has gone extremely ...

Dark matter is one of nature's most confounding mysteries. It keeps particle physicists up at night and cosmologists glued to their supercomputer simulations. We know it's real because its mass ...

Search for dark matter dealt another blow as another hiding place for elusive substance ruled out Newsweek: Stacy McGaugh, professor and chair of the Department of Astronomy, summed up what recent ...

Dark matter, one of the Universe’s greatest mysteries, may have been born blazing hot instead of cold and sluggish as scientists long believed. New research shows that dark matter particles could have ...

In recent years, a curious hypothetical particle called the axion, invented to address challenging problems with the strong nuclear force, has emerged as a leading candidate to explain dark matter.

Some of the faintest, coldest stars in the universe may be powered not by fusion—but by the annihilation of dark matter deep within them. These “dark dwarfs” could exist in regions like the galactic ...

Scientists just announced that they have detected a completely unexpected number of antihelium particles—something that could mean they were generated by dark matter. Specifically, they could have ...

Dark matter is a type of matter that is predicted to make up most of the matter in the universe, yet it is very difficult to detect using conventional experimental techniques, as it does not emit, ...

The Anglo-USA team behind the study named them dark dwarfs. Not because they are dark bodies—on the contrary—but because of their special link with dark matter, one of the most central topics in ...