According to our best possible understanding of the universe, regular matter is only a small fraction of the matter-energy ...

Inspired by superconductivity, a strange new theory that seeks to explain dark matter might explain dark energy, too ...

Webb’s new images of the Bullet Cluster reveal the most detailed dark matter map yet, shedding light on cosmic collisions and ...

To explain why dark matter particles haven't come up in any direct detection experiments, physicists have wondered if it may be a kind of particle known as an axion. Skip to main content.

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.

Scientists have never directly detected dark matter, but some wonder if one high-energy detection in 2023 could be a rare ...

Dark matter could be the result of fermions pushed into a warped fifth dimension. This theory builds on an idea first stated in 1999, but is unique in its findings. Dark matter makes up 75 percent ...

A groundbreaking new study, recently published on arXiv, challenges one of the most fundamental assumptions in cosmology: that dark matter remains constant over time. For decades, scientists have ...

Getting warmer. Scientists are keen to get to the bottom of the dark matter puzzle because this phenomenon accounts for the vast majority of the "stuff" in the universe — about 85%, in fact.

They figure dark matter is fundamentally wrong, not something to be tweaked. That makes this new idea rather interesting. In work published on the arXiv preprint server, ...

Dark matter particles greatly outweigh ordinary particles by around 5 to 1, meaning that every star, planet, moon, life form, and physical object accounts for just 15% of matter in the cosmos, ...

Dark matter is hypothesized to outweigh "ordinary matter" in the universe by a factor of five. That means all the stuff we see around us on a cosmic level, like stars, planets, ...