Imagine a star powered not by nuclear fusion, but by one of the universe’s greatest mysteries—dark matter. Scientists have ...

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

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

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.

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, ...

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

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 ...

The invisible dark matter is one of the universe's biggest mysteries, and its existence is confirmed only by the ...

Angular momentum is a fundamental quantity in physics that describes the rotational motion of objects. In quantum physics, it ...