An observatory in Chile is taking a timelapse of the sky over the Southern Hemisphere to help scientists measure the ...

The Bullet Cluster of galaxies might only have half as much dark matter than scientists thought, or perhaps even none at all, ...

The proposed semiconductor-based design uses magnetic fields to catch dark matter particles.

Dark matter accounts for 85% of the matter in the universe, but scientists still do not know what it is made of. A study, ...

After decades of hunting, physicists still don’t know what makes up most of the universe’s matter. Now they need to cast a wider net.

Only a small part of the universe consists of visible matter. By far the largest part is invisible and consists of dark matter and dark energy. Very little is known about dark energy, but there are ...

Roughly 80 percent of the mass of the universe appears to be dark matter: an invisible material that seems to interact with ...

One of the biggest mysteries in astrophysics today is that the forces in galaxies do not seem to add up. Galaxies rotate much faster than predicted by applying Newton's law of gravity to their visible ...

Most of the matter in the universe may be made out of particles that possess an unusual, donut-shaped electromagnetic field called an anapole. This proposal, which endows dark matter particles with a ...

There was an excellent live podcast with Rajendra Gupta, Brian Keating and several others a couple days ago discussing current data and findings. Its interesting as Gupta proposed a new paradigm that ...