About 85 percent of the matter in the universe is thought to be dark matter, yet there is still no confirmed direct detection ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dark matter may have started hot and cooled during reheating after the Big Bang. (CREDIT: NASA / Goddard Space Flight Center ...

Dark matter is an elusive type of matter that does not emit, reflect or absorb light, yet is estimated to account for most of the universe's mass. Over the past decades, many physicists worldwide have ...

This is akin to drawing a precise map of what we cannot see: a team of astronomers has just established the finest representation to date of dark matter, this enigmatic component of the cosmos ...

About 30 years ago an "ideas guy" and a team builder joined forces to search for the invisible bulk of existence. Over a decade ago, dark-matter experts Daniel Akerib and Thomas Shutt joined the ...

Featuring the world’s largest digital camera, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will capture these mysterious phenomena in more exquisite detail than ever before. MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our ...