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.

Researchers have created digital copies of our galaxy, the Milky Way, to better understand one of the Universe's greatest mysteries: dark matter. These virtual twins are the result of the ...

Dark matter is a real pain in the neck. The term dark matter itself refers to a hypothetical substance that seems to solely ...

Collaboration has obtained a high-precision cosmic-ray boron spectrum in the energy range of 10 GeV/n–8 TeV/n, and discovered ...

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

Despite decades of searching, scientists still haven’t found the elusive substance that holds galaxies together: dark matter.

Angular momentum is a fundamental quantity in physics that describes the rotational motion of objects. In quantum physics, it encompasses both the intrinsic spin of particles and their orbital motion ...

For decades, scientists have been searching for the universe's elusive "missing matter," and now they say they finally found it.

The object 9.1 billion light-years away, named FRB 20230521B, now holds the record for the most distant FRB ever recorded.

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

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

Thus, dark matter's gravitational impact is extremely spread out and, it turns out, can only be observed when we look at the large-scale distribution of visible matter in the universe: things like ...