Two major mysteries in science, the nature of dark matter and the possible existence of higher dimensions, could be linked, ...

Researchers in the U.S. have carried out the most stringent tests to date of the idea that an ultraviolet glow in the ...

Dark matter appears to hold galaxies together, yet it has never shown itself directly. A new theory suggests the missing ...

"With the launch of the ten-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time, the Rubin Observatory is opening a new window on the ...

The evidence for dark matter is everywhere and the evidence for dark matter is nothing. Galaxies rotate in ways that make no ...

A new theoretical framework suggests dark matter’s elusive behavior may arise from the geometry of a hidden fifth dimension.

Scientists have just slashed the potential hiding spaces for dark matter particles. The LUX-ZEPLIN, or LZ, experiment has searched for and ruled out the existence of dark matter particles with a wide ...

We may be more in the dark about dark matter than previously thought, according to a new analysis of distant galaxy clusters. Yale astrophysicist Priyamvada Natarajan, a leading theorist on the nature ...

After decades of hunting, physicists still don’t know what makes up most of the universe’s matter. Now they need to cast a wider net.

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The end is brutal for electrons hurtling at 99.9999999 percent of the speed of light through SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory’s ...