Dark matter is supposed to be everywhere, threaded through the Milky Way and outnumbering ordinary matter by a wide margin.

Scientists have introduced a new Big Bounce model that disputes the Big Bang, suggesting the universe may have cycled through earlier cosmic eras.

A mysterious glow of gamma rays at the center of the Milky Way has long hinted at dark matter, but the lack of similar ...

Two kilometres underground near Sudbury, Ont. , a machine has reached a temperature so low it barely seems real.

Recent findings from research we have been carrying out at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at Cern in Geneva suggest that we ...

A new study suggests that failing to detect dark matter signals in some galaxies may not contradict evidence seen in our own.

A tiny object half a universe away, a scar in a stream of stars circling the Milky Way, and an unusual star cluster in a ...

Dark matter may consist of two particles, explaining why only the Milky Way shows a strange gamma-ray signal while smaller ...

Learn how a two-state model of dark matter could explain why gamma-ray signals appear in some galaxies but not others.

Dark matter keeps getting blamed for the universe’s big patterns while staying stubbornly out of reach. You cannot see it, touch it, or capture it. Yet its gravity helps shape galaxies, and that makes ...

The universe has cooked up all sorts of bizarre and beautiful forms of matter, from blazing stars to purring cats, out of just three basic ingredients. Electrons and two types of quarks, dubbed “up” ...