The universe is vast and mysterious, with over 85% of its mass composed of an invisible substance known as dark matter.

If this scenario plays out, “the world as we know it would collapse like a house of cards,” says one theoretical physicist.

In the vast universe, galaxies rotate in ways that don’t make sense if only visible matter is considered. For almost a ...

Dark matter is a confounding concept that teeters on the leading edges of cosmology and physics. We don't know what it is or ...

U.S. National Laboratories (Argonne, Lawrence Livermore, and Oak Ridge) possess three of the world’s fastest exascale ...

New Technique to Detect Dark Matter Using Atomic Clocks and Lasers ... 20, 2024 — One of the biggest mysteries in science -- dark energy -- doesn't actually exist, according to researchers ...

Primordial black holes could inhabit the modern-day cosmos, making them responsible for the phenomenon of dark matter, ...

Astrophysicists have long suspected that some dark matter halos might exist without forming stars, but no one knew the exact mass limit where this transition occurs. A computational astrophysicist has ...

First discovered in the 1990s, dark energy has come to feel like a familiar face of the cosmos. Astronomers first imagined ...

The universe’s expansion is accelerating, not decelerating. Our understanding of how the universe works may need an update.

Physicists are finalizing plans for MATHUSLA, a powerful new addition to CERN's Large Hadron Collider that will detect ...

Glenn Close, Katy Perry, Lizzo and Rob Lowe were among the A-listers who saluted scientists at the 11th annual Breakthrough ...