Because it doesn't interreact with light or electromagnetism, dark matter exists to us only through its influence on visible ...

But axions were pushed aside as the WIMPs hypothesis gained more steam. Back-of-the-envelope calculations showed that the ...

Dark matter "lampshades" could slip between Earth and distant stars, causing tiny amounts of dimming that may help explain one of the greatest puzzles in science.

The dark universe under pressure The dark universe is poses such a huge conundrum for scientists because it suggests that only 5% of the matter and energy in the cosmos comprises what we see ...

A dark matter halo with a galaxy at its heart. It's possible, however, that not all dark matter haloes could packed with stellar fillings.(Image credit: Robert Lea (created with Canva)) ...

Every galaxy is thought to form at the center of a dark matter halo. Stars are formed when gravity within dark matter halos draws in gas, but astrophysicists don't know whether star-free dark ...

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. — Kobe Bryant was under the weather, a flu bug having hit at the most inopportune time. There were 11th-hour edits to make on his new film, a months-long media tour to ...

When I entered the dark matter hunt in 2005, physicists were focused on searching for dark matter whispers from the weak force. Despite its name, the weak force is much stronger than gravity, and ...

Dark matter, which makes up about 85% of the total matter in the universe, has been sort of a problematic phenomenon for scientists because it doesn't interact with light — or, if it does, that ...

Three decades ago, in January 1995, the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake leveled much of Kobe and killed more than 6,000 people. Has Japan been successful in building on the lessons of that and ...

And I go out to the court and I look, and there’s Kobe Bryant. He’s out there shooting in the dark. And I stood there for probably about 10 seconds, and I said, ‘This kid is gonna be great.’ ...

Dark matter can't be too heavy or it might break our best model of the universe, new research suggests. We have an abundance of evidence that something fishy is happening in the universe.