Dark matter doesn't absorb or give off light so scientists can't study it directly. But they can observe how its gravity ...

Data from the James Webb Space Telescope was used to create the largest, highest resolution map of dark matter, just ...

A new high-resolution map of distant galaxies may help scientists understand the mysterious dark matter holding the universe ...

(CNN) — At the center of our galaxy, there’s a mysterious, diffuse glow given off by gamma rays — powerful radiation usually emitted by high-energy objects such as rapidly rotating or exploding stars.

Dark matter is a mysterious type of matter that does not emit, absorb, or reflect light, yet is predicted to account for most ...

WIMPs (weakly interacting massive particles) are one of the most serious contenders for dark matter—the “missing” mass supposedly constituting 85% of our universe. Given its elusiveness, dark matter ...

Researchers at the ATLAS collaboration have been searching for signs of new particles in the dark sector of the universe, a hidden realm that could help explain dark matter. In some theories, this ...

An artistic illustration of the mechanism proposed by Professor Stefano Profumo where quantum effects near the rapidly expanding cosmic horizon after the Big Bang gravitationally generate dark matter ...

Growing up, Riley Carpenter ’25 was endlessly curious. Between marathons of “How It’s Made” on the Science Channel and J.R.R. Tolkien’s “Silmarillion,” he always had a desire to know how complex ...

At Texas A&M University, experimental particle physicist Dr. Rupak Mahapatra spends his days chasing some of the faintest signals in the universe. His lab designs cryogenic semiconductor detectors ...