In an extraordinary leap forward for astrophysics, astronomers have achieved a momentous breakthrough with the first direct ...

In a new study, physicists propose that superconducting magnets from dark matter experiments that are originally designed to ...

Matter in intergalactic space is not randomly scattered - it forms a vast network of filamentary structures that make up the ...

Inspired by superconductivity, a strange new theory that seeks to explain dark matter might explain dark energy, too ...

A vast filament of gas stretching across the cosmos may help solve the mystery of the Universe’s missing matter. Astronomers have identified a massive filament of hot gas connecting four galaxy ...

Dark matter, although not visible, is believed to make up most of the total mass of the universe. One theory suggests that ...

Scientists have built detailed Milky Way simulations under strange new physical laws to probe dark matter, revealing how ...

Everything in space—from Earth and the sun to black holes—accounts for just 15% of all matter in the universe. The rest of ...

Astronomers have finally tracked down missing "ordinary" matter, which they discovered hiding as gas spread out in the vast ...

A new hypothesis called the “quantum memory matrix” could solve long-standing physics questions, including the Black Hole ...

But axions were pushed aside as the WIMPs hypothesis gained more steam. Back-of-the-envelope calculations showed that the ...

Despite decades of searching, scientists still haven’t found the elusive substance that holds galaxies together: dark matter.