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A PhD student in India has proposed a "new model" of the universe that includes an "anti-universe" that flows backward in time.

Science & Energy

Our World May Be Connected to an Anti-Universe, Scientist Says

By Victor Tangermann

Dark matter may in fact be made up of light-barrier breaking particles called tachyons, the researchers posit.

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Physicists Suggest Universe Is Full of Material Moving Faster Than Light

By Frank Landymore

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

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New Paper Claims Dark Matter Doesn’t Exist at All

By Victor Tangermann

Formed just 800 million years after the Big Bang, the galaxy defies our understanding of dark matter's role in the early years of the cosmos.

James Webb Space Telescope

Scientists Befuddled by Impossible Galaxy Seen by James Webb

By Frank Landymore

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

Cosmologists are starting to suspect there may have been a second, transformative event like the Big bang that could explain dark matter.

Scientists Say There May Have Been a Second Big Bang

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 Space Telescope

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

By Frank Landymore

Scientist Says Universe Expansion May Be an Illusion

Scientist Says Universe Expansion May Be an Illusion

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

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Scientists Just Detected the Oldest Dark Matter Ever Observed

By Frank Landymore

A pair of researchers suggest a "fifth force" could be arranging smaller galaxies into disk shapes, while still considering the existence of dark matter.

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Scientists Say Space Is Filled With Invisible Walls

By Victor Tangermann

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

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Scientist Says That Dark Matter May Be Information Itself

By Jon Christian

Be very glad you don't live in what scientists are calling the "anti-universe," a hypothetical mirror to ours where time runs backwards.

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Scientists Say There May Be a Mirror Universe in Which Time Runs Backwards

By Noor Al-Sibai

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.

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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.

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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

A team of researchers say that the Moon is peppered with craters from miniature black holes — and they may reveal some breakthrough insights on dark matter.

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Scientists Say Mini-Black Holes May Have Smashed Into the Moon

By Tony Ho Tran

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

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Scientists Say Dark Matter Could Be Hiding Inside an Extra Dimension

By Victor Tangermann

According to a new detailed map of dark matter, the Universe may be smoother and more spread out than current theories have predicted so far.

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New Evidence About the Universe Suggests Einstein Was Wrong

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

A team of astronomers are trying to figure out what's behind the largest source of matter and energy in the universe: dark energy.

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Scientists Say New Experiment Will Determine “Fate of the Universe”

By Victor Tangermann

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.

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

By Dan Robitzski

A new model shows that we don't need dark energy to explain the expansion of the universe. It might be caused by some new property of dark matter instead.

Dark Energy, Thought to Comprise Most of the Universe, Might Be Totally Fake

By Dan Robitzski

There's a growing pile of evidence that dark matter bosons can clump together and form "ghost stars" that are totally invisible to our eyes and telescopes.

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There’s Growing Suspicion That The Universe Is Filled With Invisible “Ghost Stars”

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

New research suggests that black holes made of dark matter might be lurking inside neutron stars and eating them from the inside.

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Black Holes May Devour Stars From the Inside, Like Cancer

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists propose a fifth dimension and a Higgs Boson-like particle in order to provide a "natural explanation" for dark matter.

The Universe May Have a Fifth Dimension, According to New Research

By Dan Robitzski

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

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Astronomers Find Over 1,200 Dark Matter Hot Spots

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists propose that "stupendously large" black holes between the size of a solar system and an entire galaxy could be hiding throughout the universe.

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New Paper Says Black Holes Could Be as Large as an Entire Galaxy

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.

Science & Energy

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

By Victor Tangermann

A bizarre theory claims that dark matter might be made of tiny primordial black holes, which themselves might contain other universes.

Scientists Claim Black Holes Are Made of Collapsed Universes

By Dan Robitzski

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.

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

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers have created a 3D map of a gigantic cosmic structure called the "South Pole Wall" that's 1.4 billion light-years across.

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Astronomers Discover Deep-Space “Structure,” 1.4 Billion Light Years Across

By Victor Tangermann

CERN wants a bigger, better particle collider. But with no guarantee for breakthrough discoveries, physicist Sabine Hossenfelder says don't bother.

Physicist Pleads: Stop Building Stupid, Expensive Particle Colliders

By Dan Robitzski

Physicists Say They’ve Found Evidence of Elusive Axion Particle

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Physicists Say They’ve Found Evidence of Elusive Axion Particle

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.

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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.

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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.

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19 Newly Discovered Galaxies Appear to Be Missing Dark Matter

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers have discovered new evidence of a fifth force of nature, and if confirmed, the work could help us understand dark matter.

Physicists Discover Evidence of a New Force of Nature

By Kristin Houser

A team of physicists attempted a bizarre new way to spot dark matter: using antimatter probes. It hasn't worked yet, but the scientists have some ideas.

New Research: Antimatter Could Be Portal to “Dark Universe”

By Dan Robitzski

Last week, scientists achieved "first light" with the Mayall Telescope's Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument. It could teach us about dark energy.

Scientists Boot Up New Device to Map the Universe’s Dark Energy

By Victor Tangermann

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

Science & Energy

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

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers Researchers are suggesting that in the orbit of the Milky Way's sun may be a free-floating "primordial black hole" — or even more than one.are suggesting that the Sun's orbit might have captured a free-floating "primordial black hole" — or even more than one.

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Astrophysicists: There May Be Black Holes Orbiting Our Sun

By Jon Christian

Physicists at the Argonne National Lab are about to use the Mira supercomputer to simulate the universe, perhaps helping them find dark energy and matter.

Scientists Will Use a Supercomputer to Simulate the Universe

By Dan Robitzski

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

Science & Energy

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

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers have discovered 39 massive ancient galaxies — and they could inform our understanding of everything from black holes to dark matter.

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Astronomers Discover an Entire Population of Ancient Galaxies

By Kristin Houser

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

Extremely bright objects that first appeared close to the Big Bang — theoretical objects called "dark stars" — could have seeded supermassive black holes.

Science & Energy

These Bizarre Objects May Have “Seeded” Supermassive Black Holes

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers believe a past galactic collision with Antlia 2 is to blame for large ripples in the Milky Way's outer hydrogen gas disc.

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We Live in the Wreckage of an Epic Galactic Collision, Says Study

By Kristin Houser

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

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

By Jon Christian

Something punched gigantic holes through the Milky Way. There's little evidence at the cosmic crime scene, but scientists suspect it was dark matter.

A “Dense Bullet of Something” Blasted Holes in the Milky Way

By Dan Robitzski

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