On December 15, a football-field-sized balloon took flight over Antarctica, embarking on a mission that could reshape our ...

When it comes to primordial black holes being dark matter suspects, their alibi may be falling apart. Tiny black holes, created seconds after the birth of the universe, may survive longer than ...

With contributions from Brown faculty and students, the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment analyzed the largest dataset ever collected by a dark matter detector, and the results provide the strongest constraints ...

Primordial black holes are the earliest black holes thought to exist, and they vanished almost as fast as they came into being. As Stephen Hawking predicted, black holes don’t only draw particles in, ...

The universe may have produced dark matter in the first few minutes of the Big Bang, according to new research. Those particles then got trapped into ultradense pockets. Some of those pockets ...

In the early 1930s, Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky observed galaxies in space moving faster than their mass should allow, prompting him to infer the presence of some invisible scaffolding—dark ...

"If axion clouds, and thereby axions, are discovered, this would be a massive step toward solving the dark matter problem." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

New research suggests that the sun may hold dark matter in its fiery heart, and ghostly particles called neutrinos could lead us to it. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Researchers propose a new theory for the origin of dark matter, the invisible substance thought to give the universe its shape and structure. Their mathematical models show that dark matter could have ...

It is impossible for a telescope to image and far from being completely understood, yet dark matter is everywhere. The deepest mysteries about dark matter relate to its nature and behavior. The ...