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

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

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.

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.

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 ...

Dark matter, which makes up 80 percent of all matter in the universe, may have formed in the very short time before the big bang. Dark matter, ...

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 ...

The universe is vast and mysterious, with over 85% of its mass composed of an invisible substance known as dark matter. Unlike ordinary matter, dark matter does not emit, absorb, or reflect light ...

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 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, ...

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, ...