Two studies fill in gaps about the cosmos’s ordinary matter. One maps it all, even the “missing matter.” The other details one of its hiding spots.

Some of the faintest, coldest stars in the universe may be powered not by fusion—but by the annihilation of dark matter deep ...

Dark matter is one of nature's most confounding mysteries. It keeps particle physicists up at night and cosmologists glued to ...

The universe is vast, mysterious, and full of phenomena that continue to baffle scientists and researchers alike. While we’ve ...

In a chilled lab where temperatures drop close to absolute zero, a speck of magnet hovers in place. This tiny magnet, ...

"If we see the lampshade effect in action, it will tell us about what dark matter could be, which is exciting." ...

This hidden matter has been mapped using FRBs, intense millisecond-long pulses from galaxies located far away. With the help of 70 FRBs, which included one from 9 billion light years away, the ...

Decades ago, astronomers estimated that “ordinary” matter (basically everything that isn’t dark matter or dark energy) makes ...

Scientists are on the trail of a mysterious five-particle structure that could challenge one of the biggest theories in ...

Because it doesn't interreact with light or electromagnetism, dark matter exists to us only through its influence on visible ...

Scientists have never directly detected dark matter, but some wonder if one high-energy detection in 2023 could be a rare ...