No theory could explain the slight excess of far-ultraviolet light in the Milky Way until now.

A model of the cyclic universe suggests that dark matter could be a population of black holes predating the Big Bang.

Generally speaking, black holes are regions of spacetime where matter is compressed into a tiny space. Dark matter, meanwhile ...

A new study suggests that failing to detect dark matter signals in some galaxies may not contradict evidence seen in our own.

Researchers at the University of Portsmouth in the UK have proposed a cosmic bounce ...

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Dark matter may consist of two particles, explaining why only the Milky Way shows a strange gamma-ray signal while smaller ...

Scientists have discovered that dark matter, the universe's most mysterious "stuff," obeys gravity on vast cosmological scales. This could help to dismiss the possibility of a fifth fundamental force ...

Two kilometres underground near Sudbury, Ont. , a machine has reached a temperature so low it barely seems real.

A new high-resolution map of dark matter, created using data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, is offering more clues into the part the mysterious stuff plays in the formation of universe. The ...

"WIMPs are still the leading candidate for dark matter, but billions of dollars of experiments have been done, only getting stronger and stronger upper limits, so alternative scenarios have to be ...

Now is a surreal time to be a dark matter researcher. Even as research funding is being cut by governments around the world, dark matter remains one of the biggest and most exciting open problems in ...