Data collected from a once-defunct NASA satellite show that Earth grew two extra radiation belts following a supercharged ...

Scientists are preparing to launch a dark matter detector into space. The project aims to understand this mysterious ...

Ancient quasars seen by the James Webb Space Telescope technically shouldn’t exist, but one rare type of dark matter could ...

(That would be far too easy.) Instead, the primary theory of dark matter says that it is made of hypothetical particles called Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs), which are about as well ...

Featuring the world’s largest digital camera, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will capture these mysterious phenomena in more ...

Their theory suggests that dark matter might have originated from a separate "Dark Big Bang," occurring shortly after the universe began. For decades, scientists have believed that all matter in ...

Feb. 6, 2025 — A team of international researchers has developed an innovative approach to uncover the secrets of dark matter in the cosmos. They are searching for dark matter using atomic ...

A final, and controversial, suggestion is that dark matter doesn’t exist at all, and we’ve simply got our theories of gravity all wrong. But Einstein’s general theory of relativity ...

An international team of researchers has found dark matter dominating the halos of two supermassive black holes in galaxies roughly 13 billion light years away. Their study, published in The ...

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One of these candidates is so-called light dark matter (LDM), particles with low masses below a few giga-electron volts (GeV/c 2). Theories suggest that these particles could weakly interact with ...