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

Dark matter may not have needed a calm, cold start to help build the universe. That is the challenge raised by new work from ...

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

The world's most powerful particle accelerator will shutter operations Monday for four years of renovations to dramatically ...

Buried deep underground, this extraordinary machine has already transformed humanity's understanding of the universe.

Researchers have built a quantum sensor prototype that cancels laser phase noise, advancing atom interferometry for cosmic ...

The phenomenology of dark matter in particle physics addresses the bridge between theoretical models of unseen matter and the experimental or observational signatures that might reveal its nature.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures the magnificent starry population of the Coma Cluster of galaxies, one of the densest known galaxy collections in the universe — and where the effect of dark ...

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.

Determining the nature of dark matter, the invisible substance that makes up most of the mass in our universe, is one of the greatest puzzles in physics. New results from the world’s most sensitive ...

Dark centre? A simulated version of the Milky Way galaxy. (Courtesy: AIP/ A. Khalatyan) Astronomers have long puzzled over the cause of a mysterious “glow” of very high energy gamma radiation ...

The world's largest scientific machine—the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN—has shut down after completing a landmark ...