Nearly a century after astronomers first proposed dark matter to explain the strange motions of galaxies, scientists may finally be catching a glimpse of it. A University of Tokyo researcher analyzing ...

A team of astronomers say they've made the first ever detection of dark matter by examining gamma rays near the center of the ...

China’s Giant Underground Neutrino Observatory Just Released Its First Results—And They’re Promising ...

Physicists have long known how lightning ends, in a blinding discharge that can heat air hotter than the surface of the Sun, ...

Antimatter particles are mirror versions of matter particles, with the opposite values of properties such as electric charge.

Deep underground in southern China, there is a 20,000-ton tank of liquid that can detect neutrinos. Named JUNO, the ...

An effect first observed decades ago by Nobel laureate Arthur Ashkin has been used to fine tune the electrical charge on ...

Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity does a great job at explaining gravity but it is thought to be incomplete ...

Inside the world’s most powerful particle accelerators, enormous amounts of energy are used to explore the deepest secrets of ...

NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope may have detected the first direct evidence for dark matter, according to new research ...

The geometry of space, the setting in which physical laws operate, may hold clues to some of the biggest unanswered questions in fundamental physics. The underlying structure of spacetime itself could ...

Everything you see around you—your phone, your cat, the Earth, the stars—makes up just 15% of the mass in the universe. The ...