Scientists suspect lightweight dark matter might ionize hydrogen in the Milky Way’s core. This could also explain the 511-keV ...

Dark matter could be an entire dark sector of the universe, with its own particles and forces H ave you ever stood by the sea and been overwhelmed by its vastness, by how quickly it could roll in and ...

Recent research proposes a new form of dark matter that may actually be lighter in mass than other dark matter candidates.

A strange energy source at the center of the Milky Way may be a new type of dark matter. Scientists found that hydrogen gas ...

Scientists used infrared spectrographs to detect dark matter decay. No signals appeared, but anomalies suggest more ...

For nearly a century, scientists have grappled with the enigma of dark matter, an unseen substance believed to shape galaxies and the universe itself. While its gravitational influence is evident in ...

A team led by a member of Tokyo Metropolitan University has made advances in the search for dark matter, observing galaxies using new spectrographic technology and the Magellan Clay Telescope. With a ...

The rest of the universe appears to be made of a mysterious, invisible substance called dark matter (25 percent) and a force that repels gravity known as dark energy (70 percent). Scientists have ...

"Most of them are solitary. In this new work, we show how to effectively double the number of pulsars we can use to constrain dark matter in the galaxy by rigorously using solitary pulsars to ...

A team led by a member of Tokyo Metropolitan University have made advances in the search for dark matter, observing galaxies using new spectrographic technology and the Magellan Clay Telescope. With a ...

Residents of a mining town waits for economic recovery while physicists under their feet wait for answers from the universe.