For more than half a century, scientists have tried to understand dark matter—a mysterious form of matter that doesn’t emit ...

Dark matter, a type of matter that does not emit, absorb, or reflect light, is predicted to account for most of the ...

Modelling suggests that annihilation of this strange, invisible matter helps stars to retain that youthful glow.

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

"Dark matter could be captured by stars and accumulate inside them. If that happens, it might also interact with itself and ...

This particular isotope burns away quickly inside stars due to their intense heat. But in cooler objects like brown dwarfs, ...

The origins of dark matter can be traced to the 1600s. Soon after Isaac Newton presented his theory of universal gravity, some astronomers began to speculate about the existence of objects that ...

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

Dark matter 'lampshades' dimming stars could solve one of the greatest scientific mysteries; Black holes could work as natural particle colliders to hunt for dark matter, scientists say ...

The dark matter, on the other hand, doesn't collide with either itself or with normal matter, meaning it remains in a very large, extremely diffuse halo.

Dark matter research is unsettling. Scientists were unnerved when they first noticed that galaxies don’t rotate by the same physics as a spinning plate. The stars at a galaxy’s edge rotate ...

Now, the search for dark matter has received an unlikely assist from technology used in quantum computing research. In a new paper published in the journal Nature, my colleagues on the HAYSTAC team ...