"WIMPs are still the leading candidate for dark matter, but billions of dollars of experiments have been done, only getting ...

New research puts forward compelling new evidence that dark matter interacts with cosmic "ghost particles" called neutrinos.

Physicists don’t actually know what the universe is really made of. The currently most popular theory is that most of the ...

When it comes to understanding the universe, what we know is only a sliver of the whole picture.

Nearly everything in the universe is made of mysterious dark matter and dark energy, yet we can’t see either of them directly ...

Dark matter is an elusive type of matter that does not emit, absorb or reflect light, interacting very weakly with ordinary ...

Scientists are uncovering dark matter, the biggest secret in the universe, with new detectors built to sense what was once ...

Hints of impossibly bright, massive objects in the infant universe have forced astronomers to rethink how the first cosmic ...

Scientists build ultra-sensitive detectors to study dark matter and dark energy, which make up most of the universe but remain unseen and poorly understood ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: For nearly a century, scientists have been searching for direct evidence of dark matter—one of the key missing pieces of our theoretical ...

At age 12, Tracy Slatyer felt sorry for a book. She read a newspaper article about how lots of people were buying A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking. “But then … nobody was actually reading it ...