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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

New data collected by NASA, using two space telescopes, shows that the vast majority of our galaxy's mass is dark matter.

New NASA Measurements: Milky Way Galaxy Is “On the Beefier Side”

By Jon Christian

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

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

According to a new theory, the Big Bang also generated a second "anti-universe" that extended backwards in time, like a mirror image of our own.

New Theory: “Mirror Image” of Our Universe Existed Before Big Bang

By Jon Christian

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

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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.

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Stars Torn From Galaxies Let Astronomers “See” Dark Matter

By Dan Robitzski

This Ancient Galaxy Was Loaded With Dark Matter

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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.

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An Oxford Scientist May Have Solved the Mystery of Dark Matter

By Jon Christian

A New Trick Lets Us Weigh The Galaxy. It’s The First Step Toward Figuring Out What It’s Made Of

A New Trick Lets Us Weigh The Galaxy. It’s The First Step Toward Figuring Out What It’s Made Of

By Dan Robitzski

Four Notable Things About the Most Distant Star Scientists Have Ever Glimpsed

Four Notable Things About the Most Distant Star Scientists Have Ever Glimpsed

By Claudia Geib

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

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

By Kristin Houser

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: We Don’t Understand the Most Fundamental Aspects of Our Universe

By Jolene Creighton

Scientists Now Know When the First Stars Formed in the Universe

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Scientists Now Know When the First Stars Formed in the Universe

By Kristin Houser

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

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

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Here’s Your First Look at the Most Detailed Simulation of the Cosmos Ever Made

By Christianna Reedy

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Dark Energy Survey Discovers Remnants of Other Galaxies Within Our Own

By Chelsea Gohd

It’s 2018. Here Are Six Scientific Mysteries We Still Haven’t Solved.

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It’s 2018. Here Are Six Scientific Mysteries We Still Haven’t Solved.

By Victor Tangermann

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A Probe Detected a Mysterious Signal That Physics Can’t Explain

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

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Measurements From CERN Suggest the Possibility of a New Physics

We Just Moved One Step Closer to Finally Detecting Dark Matter

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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

Next Week, Scientists Will Finally Disclose Key Details About Gravitational Waves

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Next Week, Scientists Will Finally Disclose Key Details About Gravitational Waves

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

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This Dark Energy Discovery Could Rewrite Physics

Scientists Are One Step Closer to Finding Dark Matter

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Scientists Are One Step Closer to Finding Dark Matter

The Largest Virtual Universe Ever Created Was Just Simulated in a Supercomputer

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The Largest Virtual Universe Ever Created Was Just Simulated in a Supercomputer

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New Research May Reconcile General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics

Five Science Mysteries We Need to Inspire the Next Generation to Solve

Five Science Mysteries We Need to Inspire the Next Generation to Solve

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

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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

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New Research Shows “68% of the Universe May Not Exist at All”

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Scientists Think Dark Energy Might Be Just an Illusion

By Chelsea Gohd

Researchers Think Portals May Link Our Visible World With The “Dark Sector”

Researchers Think Portals May Link Our Visible World With The “Dark Sector”

By Patrick Caughill

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Why String Theory May Be the Key to Uncovering A “Theory of Everything”

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

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A New Theory of Gravity Just Passed its First Test. Here’s What This Means for Physics

By Cecille De Jesus

Astrophysicist: Soon, We Will Solve the Mystery of Dark Matter

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Astrophysicist: Soon, We Will Solve the Mystery of Dark Matter

By Cecille De Jesus

The Missing Universe: CERN Has Started Searching for “Dark Photons”

The Missing Universe: CERN Has Started Searching for “Dark Photons”

By Jess Vilvestre

This Record-Breaking Atomic Clock Can Pin Down the Fundamental Constants of the Universe

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This Record-Breaking Atomic Clock Can Pin Down the Fundamental Constants of the Universe

By Jelor Gallego

Understanding Dark Matter: Astronomers Found a New Object Orbiting the Milky Way

Understanding Dark Matter: Astronomers Found a New Object Orbiting the Milky Way

Everything You Wanted to Know About the Cosmos

Everything You Wanted to Know About the Cosmos

By Jolene Creighton

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No More Dark Matter? A New Theory of Gravity Could Explain Away Dark Matter and Energy

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Scientists May Have Identified the Particles That Make Up Dark Matter

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A New Hypothesis Claims to Solve 5 of the Biggest Problems in Physics

Astronomers Discover A Galaxy Made of 99.99% Dark Matter

Astronomers Discover A Galaxy Made of 99.99% Dark Matter

By Cecille De Jesus

LIGO-Detected Black Holes May Be the Origin of Dark Matter

LIGO-Detected Black Holes May Be the Origin of Dark Matter

By Jelor Gallego

The World’s Most Sensitive Dark Matter Detector Just Found…Nothing

The World’s Most Sensitive Dark Matter Detector Just Found…Nothing

By Cecille De Jesus

Dark Energy Finally Measured Alongside Record-Breaking Map of 1.2 Million Galaxies

Dark Energy Finally Measured Alongside Record-Breaking Map of 1.2 Million Galaxies

By Cecille De Jesus

New Hypothesis Suggests That Dark Matter May Be Made up of Primordial Black Holes

New Hypothesis Suggests That Dark Matter May Be Made up of Primordial Black Holes

By Patrick Caughill

20 Percent of Universe’s Normal Matter Exists in Dark Cosmic Voids

20 Percent of Universe’s Normal Matter Exists in Dark Cosmic Voids

By Miguel Santos

Radio Signals From Space Just Revealed the Missing Matter in the Universe

Radio Signals From Space Just Revealed the Missing Matter in the Universe

By Miguel Santos

NASA is Making a New Telescope With a View 100 Times Larger Than Hubble’s

NASA is Making a New Telescope With a View 100 Times Larger Than Hubble’s

By Sarah Marquart

Dark Matter “Hairs” May Cover Our Planet

Dark Matter “Hairs” May Cover Our Planet

By Miguel Santos

New Probe May Help Uncover Dark Matter

New Probe May Help Uncover Dark Matter

By Miguel Santos

One of the Largest Cosmological Simulations Ever Shows the Evolution of the Universe

One of the Largest Cosmological Simulations Ever Shows the Evolution of the Universe

By Miguel Santos

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

By Jolene Creighton