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

A USC-led research team has created a series of supercomputer-simulated twins of our Milky Way galaxy—which could help ...

A recent study has provided intriguing evidence that dark matter—the mysterious substance making up a significant portion of the universe's mass—could interact with regular matter in more ways ...

A USC-led research team has created a series of supercomputer-simulated twins of our Milky Way galaxy—which could help scientists unlock new answers ...

Why is the dark matter called “dark”? Is it because it holds some evil cosmic forces or shady secrets that scientists don’t want us to know? Well, such fancy assumptions may sound intriguing ...

Ultrafine dark matter, millions of times lighter than electrons, could flow through the cosmos in waves. We might just have an easy way to check for tiny interactions between this dark matter and ...

Dark matter is one of the most mysterious theories about how our universe continues to hold everything together as its ...

Yet dark matter might not be one particular particle—it may be a whole hidden sector of dark particles and forces. In this dark sector, particles would interact through their own independent ...

Axions have some very specific properties in how they interact with other particles and even light. Dark matter is a bit of a misnomer because it should be invisible matter, since we cannot see it.

From the smallest of interactions to the most powerful galactic phenomena, scientists are searching far and wide for the signatures of dark matter. In the second of a three-part series, Keith Cooper ...

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