For nearly a century, scientists around the world have been searching for dark matter—an invisible substance believed to make ...

A computer simulation of stars near the centre of our galaxy offers an explanation for their mysteriously young appearance – ...

Scientists have long struggled to find the elusive, exotic particle that makes up dark matter, and more theories abound every year. In December, an Oxford scientist proposed that the universe was ...

Scientists may not understand what dark matter is, but they know enough about what it does to map it. And they also are pretty sure what it is made of. They are called WIMPs, generically, so ...

One popular theory is that dark matter is made up of WIMPs. Scientists believe that these particles could have 10 to 100 times the mass of a proton, a type of molecule that makes up regular matter.

Dark matter: Dark, but not that dark. ... I'd like to again suggest that we start calling this stuff "idk matter," which at least one scientist involved in the studies supports me on: ...

Right now, scientists are busily designing and constructing similarly complicated experiments, for detecting dark matter right here on Earth. Surprisingly, some of the most advanced astronomical ...

What dark matter is exactly remains a mystery. It has mass, but no electrical charge, and it has never been directly detected, but its gravitational effects have been observed numerous times. It ...

If dark matter is cold, a Milky Way-type galaxy could harbour one or two subhaloes weighing as much as 10 10 Suns, and most likely hundreds with masses of around 10 8 Suns.

We have a bit of a crisis on our hands — a dark matter crisis if you will. That’s because, for years, scientists theorized that dark matter, an unseen force, helps hold the universe together.

Scientists have mapped out the dark matter around some of the earliest, most distant galaxies yet. The 1.5 million galaxies appear as they were 12 billion years ago, ...