The universe is made up of three components: normal or visible matter (5%), dark matter (27%), and dark energy (68%). NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center From stars and galaxies to the shoes on your ...

First and perhaps most perplexingly, researchers remain unsure about what exactly dark matter is. Originally, some scientists ...

Physics is unique in the scientific world, in that its reliance on math means it can come to a broad consensus on matters with very little evidence available. In Earth science, a veritable mountain of ...

Explore the debate surrounding a potential dark matter discovery, highlighting skepticism and the need for rigorous ...

The hero is regular matter, which is everything we can see around us. Antimatter is the mirror-image explosive twin that scientists understand well but can barely find. And dark matter is the ...

With contributions from Brown faculty and students, the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment analyzed the largest dataset ever collected by ...

"I think it's natural to take a break and wonder whether we are fundamentally thinking about this in the wrong way." Dark matter could be made from tiny black holes formed when so-called "dark baryons ...

Dark matter is one of nature's most confounding mysteries. It keeps particle physicists up at night and cosmologists glued to their supercomputer simulations. We know it's real because its mass ...

Gravitational waves communicate information in a wholly different medium than any type of radiation. What that means is that astronomers could use them to study things that were fundamentally ...

The universe's invisible dark matter might swirl into spinning clumps laced with countless tiny vortices, new theoretical work suggests. The findings, published May 30 in the journal Physical Review D ...

Explore the elusive nature of dark matter, its indirect evidence, and the latest LUX-ZEPLIN detector advancements in the ...

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 ...