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

A newly discovered celestial object may be a starless cloud that could change how astronomers understand dark matter.

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

Of all the sciences, physics is unique in that it can come to a broad consensus with math alone—very little tactile evidence required. Never has this been the case more than with dark matter. Though ...

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

Searches for dark matter particles have come up empty so far, driving theorists to get more creative with their ideas.

Advanced quantum detectors designed at Texas A&M University are reinventing the search for dark matter, an unseen force that ...

85% of the mass of our universe is made up of dark matter. 85% of the mass of our universe is made up of dark matter--a type of matter that we cannot see or detect, but without it, galaxies would not ...

While dark matter interacts with ordinary matter through gravity, it does not seem to interact at all with the electromagnetic spectrum, including visible light. So dark matter doesn't absorb, reflect ...

About 30 years ago an "ideas guy" and a team builder joined forces to search for the invisible bulk of existence. Over a decade ago, dark-matter experts Daniel Akerib and Thomas Shutt joined the ...

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