The General AntiParticle Spectrometer experiment is suspended from a football-field-sized balloon about 24 miles above the ...

Smooth filaments stretching for many light-years, seen by the powerful space telescope, could indicate what the right "recipe ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is starting to turn a long‑standing cosmic mystery into something that looks almost tangible.

Australian researchers have played a central role in a landmark result from the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment in South Dakota - ...

Scientists search for "decaying" dark matter (DDM) because it offers unique signatures like specific X-ray or gamma-ray lines ...

In the leading model of cosmology, most of the universe is invisible: a combined 95% is made of dark matter and dark energy. Exactly what these dark components are remains a mystery, but they have a ...

"It's possible we will see the new data and confirm one theory over the other — or maybe we'll find nothing, in which case it'll be an even greater mystery to resolve." The century-old mystery of dark ...

A new study from Tel Aviv University has predicted, for the first time, the groundbreaking results that can be obtained from detecting radio waves coming to us from the early Universe. The findings ...

Normal matter – which makes up everything we see and touch – isn’t the only type of matter present in the universe.

So dark matter doesn't absorb, reflect, or emit any light. While dark matter is invisible, it does have some things in common with ordinary matter: It takes up space and it holds mass. Because of this ...

This weekend, the Adler Planetarium is taking visitors on two fascinating journeys — one exploring the science and mystery of dark matter, and another uncovering the historic connection between ...