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Recent research proposes a new form of dark matter that may actually be lighter in mass than other dark matter candidates.

Scientists Find Evidence of a New Form of Dark Matter Swirling at Center of Our Galaxy

By Frank Landymore

Their mapping of dark matter confirms the discrepancies between observations of the universe's structures and our theoretical models of them.

Scientists Analyzing Deep Space “Forest” to Map Dark Matter

By Frank Landymore

Researchers suggest we should hunt for an ultralight dark matter candidate in the Earth's ionosphere, a "long shot."

The Earth May Be Swimming Through Dark Matter, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

A controversial new paper suggests the universe is twice as old as current models suggest and that dark matter doesn't exist.

New Paper Claims Dark Matter Doesn’t Exist at All

By Victor Tangermann

Does dark matter reside in a deformed mirror universe of our own, where rules are different and atoms failed to form?

Dark Matter May Be a Deformed Mirror Universe, Scientists Say

By Jon Christian

Chinese scientists have opened the deepest and largest underground lab in the world to study dark matter particles.

China Opens Huge Underground Dark Matter Lab

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk has chimed in and has decreed that the universe is "possibly" twice as old as we think it is. Make of that what you will.

Elon Musk Says Universe May Be Twice as Old as We Think, Dark Matter Seems “Sketch”

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers believe they've spotted three objects known as dark stars originating just hundreds of years after the Big Bang.

James Webb Appears to Have Spotted Weird Stars Powered by Dark Matter

By Frank Landymore

Scientists in Europe are gearing up for the much-anticipated launch of Euclid, a telescope designed to track dark matter.

Europe Is About to Launch a Dark Matter-Hunting Spacecraft

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

By observing companion stars orbiting black holes, scientists may have gathered indirect proof that black holes accrete massive clumps of dark matter.

Black Holes May Be Engulfed In Dark Matter, Scientists Find

By Frank Landymore

There may be planets made up of dark matter with their own bizarre physics, a group of scientist argue in a new study: and they might know how to find them.

Physicists Say There May Be Entire Planets Made of Dark Matter

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists at Nagoya University have discovered dark matter from 12 billion years ago, making it the earliest observation of the substance to date

Scientists Just Detected the Oldest Dark Matter Ever Observed

By Frank Landymore

A physicist from the UK named Melvin Vopson is raising a startling possibility: that dark matter might be information itself.

Scientist Says That Dark Matter May Be Information Itself

By Jon Christian

We don't wanna freak you out, but there's a really good likelihood that dark matter could be in the room with you right now.

Is Dark Matter In The Room With Me Right Now? Scientists Say Yes

By Noor Al-Sibai

With so much unknown about the mysterious substance scientists call "dark matter," the possibility for discoveries and uses are endless — and could very well include a new energy source.

Scientist Says Dark Matter Could Likely Be Incredible Fuel for Spacecraft

By Noor Al-Sibai

Two scientists have teamed up to unlock the secrets of dark matter — and we asked them everything you're afraid to ask about the mysterious substance.

Inside NASA’s Bold Proposal to Probe the Mysteries of Dark Matter

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists can't yet see dark matter, but they may soon be able to measure it.

NASA Proposes Sending Spacecraft to Measure Mysterious Dark Matter

By Noor Al-Sibai

According to a team of researchers, the existence of an extra dimension in space-time could explain the existence of dark mater

Scientists Say Dark Matter Could Be Hiding Inside an Extra Dimension

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists found a cluster of stars trailing behind our galaxy that they think could be trapped in a blob of dark matter.

A Blob of Dark Matter Appears to Be Floating Outside Our Galaxy

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists suspect that gas giant planets are capturing dark matter particles, and they have an idea for how to look for them.

Dark Matter May Be Hiding Inside Planets, Scientists Say

By Dan Robitzski

An experiment that probed the star Betelgeuse for signs of dark matter didn't turn anything up, but it will help refine future attempts.

MIT Scientists: Nearby Star Appears to Be Cranking Out Dark Matter

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists dropped a spherical telescope into Lake Baikal, where they hope it will spot subatomic neutrinos zipping by as they pass through the Earth.

Scientists Dump Telescope Into the World’s Deepest Lake to Hunt for Dark Matter

By Dan Robitzski

Using a new AI algorithm, scientists identified over 1,200 gravitational lenses, potentially helping them find and understand dark matter.

Astronomers Find Over 1,200 Dark Matter Hot Spots

By Dan Robitzski

According to a new study, high-energy X-ray emissions around a group of neutron stars may be caused by axions, one of the top candidates for dark matter.

Distant Neutron Stars May Offer Clue About the Truth of Dark Matter

By Victor Tangermann

In a recent study, an international group of scientists argue that dark matter doesn't exist. It's simply our limited scientific understanding of gravity.

New Study Claims Dark Matter Doesn’t Exist

By Victor Tangermann

New Theory: Dark Matter Was Created by “Boiling” Bubbles of Plasma

New Theory: Dark Matter Was Created by “Boiling” Bubbles of Plasma

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists are preparing to use an ultra-precise atomic clock to hunt oscillations of dark matter several orders of magnitude smaller than ever before.

Ultra-Precise Atomic Clocks May Be Able to Detect Oscillations of Dark Matter

By Dan Robitzski

The galaxy Dragonfly 44, which scientists said had a baffling 10,000-to-one ratio of dark matter to visible matter, may not be so unique after all.

Scientists: That “99.9% Dark Matter” Galaxy Is Actually Perfectly Normal

By Dan Robitzski

According to new research, dark matter may be an even bigger mystery than we initially thought. The theoretical maps aren't lining up with observations.

Dark Matter’s Effect Is 10x What It Should Be, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

Jim Peebles, who first theorized about dark matter, argues in a new essay that there's still a lot of work to be done in proving his ideas.

The Guy Who Invented Dark Matter Has Some Doubts

By Dan Robitzski

A research team failed to find a widely-accepted dark matter particle candidate in the Milky Way galaxy, causing a stir among disagreeing astrophysicists.

Shocking Research Threatens Our Understanding of Dark Matter

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists thought they ruled out dark matter as the source of bizarre cosmic gamma rays coming from the core of the Milky Way. New evidence disagrees.

MIT: Dark Matter At Our Galaxy’s Core May Be Blasting Gamma Rays

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists have a new guess for what triggers white dwarf stars to blow up in supernovae: tiny black holes made of dark matter growing in their cores.

New Theory: Dark Matter Black Holes Are Detonating Stars

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers discovered 19 new galaxies that appear to be missing their dark matter. The discovery challenges our models of how galaxies form.

19 Newly Discovered Galaxies Appear to Be Missing Dark Matter

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists just publicly presented the first ever images of the German space agency's (DLR) X-ray telescope eROSITA. And they're magnificent.

Here Are The First-Ever Images From the Dark Matter Telescope

By Victor Tangermann

New research suggests that dark matter was already there before the Big Bang occurred, altering our understanding of the history of the universe.

New Research: There May Have Been Dark Matter Before Big Bang

By Dan Robitzski

A new study suggests that tiny amounts of dark matter could behave like high-speed projectiles, capable of tearing through human flesh.

Study: “Dark Matter Bullets” Could Tear Human Flesh Apart

By Victor Tangermann

There might be another universe, exactly like our own — except that it's a perfect mirror image. And it could explain dark matter.

Bizarre Theory: “Mirror-Image Universe” Could Explain Dark Matter

By Jon Christian

Scientists have a new plan to try and spot dark matter by searching for particular particles once the Large Hadron Collider's upgrades are complete.

When the Large Hadron Collider Turns on, It May Trap Dark Matter

By Dan Robitzski

Inspired by "Frozen," scientists built an apparatus that detects subatomic particles when they collide with supercooled water. It may help spot dark matter.

Disney’s “Frozen” Inspired New Attempt to Find Dark Matter

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers believe the strange behavior of galaxies could be caused by the combined mass of untold zillions of photons and not dark matter.

New Theory: Mass of Photons Could Explain Effects of Dark Matter

By Jon Christian

Scientists say a new map of how structures of dark matter have grown throughout the life of the universe could upend current understanding of physics.

New Map of Dark Matter Breaks Scientists’ Understanding of Physics

By Jon Christian

New research suggests that supermassive black holes formed in halos of dark matter that serve as "gravitational glue" for galaxies.

New Theory: Vast, Ancient Black Holes Formed Because of Dark Matter

By Jon Christian

A small, levitating glass bead the size of a virus might be the long-awaited key to directly observing dark matter, if new research is to be believed.

A Floating, Virus-Sized Bead Could Help Find Dark Matter

By Dan Robitzski

The discovery of a relationship between the dark matter in dwarf galaxies and their star formation could help us understand the mysterious material.

New Finding Could Be “Smoking Gun” in Understanding Dark Matter

By Jon Christian

Astronomers recently discovered a new technique that makes it much easier to detect and study how dark matter is distributed throughout the universe.

Stars Torn From Galaxies Let Astronomers “See” Dark Matter

By Dan Robitzski

This Ancient Galaxy Was Loaded With Dark Matter

This Ancient Galaxy Was Loaded With Dark Matter

By Jon Christian

A new dark matter detection study, COSINE-100, may debunk another experiment that claimed to have spotted dark matter. But the two had some key differences.

Two Nearly-Identical Dark Matter Studies Have Conflicting Results

By Dan Robitzski

A researcher at the University of Oxford says a new theory could explain the mystery of dark matter and dark energy — and it's a mind-bender.

An Oxford Scientist May Have Solved the Mystery of Dark Matter

By Jon Christian

Scientists Found a Galaxy With Almost No Dark Matter. Here’s What That Means.

Scientists Found a Galaxy With Almost No Dark Matter. Here’s What That Means.

By Kristin Houser

Dark Matter May Be a Product of Gravitational Waves with a Twist

Dark Matter May Be a Product of Gravitational Waves with a Twist

Is Dark Matter Decay Causing Antimatter to Smash into Planet Earth?

Is Dark Matter Decay Causing Antimatter to Smash into Planet Earth?

By Chelsea Gohd

We Just Moved One Step Closer to Finally Detecting Dark Matter

We Just Moved One Step Closer to Finally Detecting Dark Matter

Hubble Discovery Suggests We May Need New Physics to Explain Dark Matter

Hubble Discovery Suggests We May Need New Physics to Explain Dark Matter

A New Quantum Atomic Clock May Finally Reveal the Nature of Dark Matter

A New Quantum Atomic Clock May Finally Reveal the Nature of Dark Matter

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New Gravitational Wave Research May Finally Reveal Mysterious “Dark Matter”

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The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope May Unveil the Secrets of Dark Matter

Scientists Are One Step Closer to Finding Dark Matter

Scientists Are One Step Closer to Finding Dark Matter

Decoding the Gravitational Evolution of Dark Matter Halos

Decoding the Gravitational Evolution of Dark Matter Halos

Scientists Have Captured the First-Ever “Image” of a Dark Matter Web

Scientists Have Captured the First-Ever “Image” of a Dark Matter Web

By Patrick Caughill

When You Play Mass Effect, You’re Playing With Dark Matter

When You Play Mass Effect, You’re Playing With Dark Matter

By Kelsey R. Marquart

Dark Matter and Dark Energy in a Nutshell (Video)

Dark Matter and Dark Energy in a Nutshell (Video)

By Jolene Creighton

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The Quest for Dark Matter: Could the Missing Universe be Black Holes?

By Jolene Creighton

Scientific Pioneer and Matriarch of Dark Matter, Vera Rubin Has Died at 88

Scientific Pioneer and Matriarch of Dark Matter, Vera Rubin Has Died at 88

By Robert Sanders