Dark matter is more than five times as abundant as all the visible matter in the universe. So why can't we see any of it?

Besides particles like sterile neutrinos, axions and weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), a leading candidate for ...

Researchers propose a new theory for the origin of dark matter, the invisible substance thought to give the universe its ...

A research team led by Prof. Wang Huiyuan from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) has made a ...

In a first-of-its-kind test, scientists used a levitated magnet to search for dark matter, the unidentified substance believed to be present throughout the cosmos. If dark matter is made up of ...

Dark matter makes up a large portion of the universe, but we've never seen it. Here's what we know, what it might be, and why it could change everything. More than 80% of the universe's matter is ...

"Our proposed dark matter subject is sub-GeV (one billion eV) in mass and self-annihilates into electrons and positrons." ...

Intriguingly, ultralight dark matter might be able to turn into photons (light) — and it's through this process that the research team hopes to eradicate molecular hydrogen and allow gas clouds to ...