About 85 percent of the matter in the universe is thought to be dark matter, yet there is still no confirmed direct detection of any dark matter particle. Ground-based detectors, space-based ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dark matter and gas (Illustrative). (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons) The researchers recorded a small number of unexplained ...

Astronomers have long been puzzled by two strange phenomena at the heart of our galaxy. First, the gas in the central molecular zone (CMZ), a dense and chaotic region near the Milky Way's core, ...

Using the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment, scientists may have detected the first direct evidence of dark matter, in the form of a rare ...

In its hunt for dark matter, the XENONnT experiment has detected the rare, feeble glow of neutrinos smacking into electrons Can NASA’s Roman Space Telescope solve the biggest problem in the universe?

Imagine a star powered not by nuclear fusion, but by one of the universe’s greatest mysteries—dark matter. Scientists have proposed the existence of “dark dwarfs,” strange glowing objects potentially ...

Dark matter is one of the oldest open problems in physics. It makes up most of the matter in the universe and shapes how ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NGC 1052-DF2, the first of the three galaxies, opened a can of worms no one expected. (NASA, ESA, and P. van Dokkum/Yale ...