Smooth filaments stretching for many light-years, seen by the powerful space telescope, could indicate what the right "recipe ...

Australian researchers have played a central role in a landmark result from the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment in South Dakota - ...

Is This the Moment? Scientists Detect a Signal That Might Be Dark Matter ...

Observations of the formation of light-nuclei from high-energy collisions may help in the hunt for dark matter.

In the leading model of cosmology, most of the universe is invisible: a combined 95% is made of dark matter and dark energy.

"It's possible we will see the new data and confirm one theory over the other — or maybe we'll find nothing, in which case it'll be an even greater mystery to resolve." The century-old mystery of dark ...

Normal matter – which makes up everything we see and touch – isn’t the only type of matter present in the universe.

A new study from Tel Aviv University has predicted, for the first time, the groundbreaking results that can be obtained from detecting radio waves coming to us from the early Universe. The findings ...

"If we see the lampshade effect in action, it will tell us about what dark matter could be, which is exciting." Dark matter clumps could act as stellar lampshades, drifting between Earth and distant ...

New data from a NASA space telescope hints that scientists may have finally captured the first direct glimpse of the mysterious substance.

Astronomers got their first hints that the universe is filled with some invisible, mysterious, massive substance back in the 1930’s—something that must be there and holding things together ...

Using a worldwide network of radio telescopes including the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia, astronomers have discovered a mysterious object in the distant universe. A million times the mass of ...