Six thousand eight hundred feet below the floor of an active nickel mine in northern Ontario, something has gone extremely cold. Not cold in the way of a walk-in freezer, or a liquid nitrogen tank, or ...

An international collaboration, including Northwestern University, has reached a critical milestone in the search for dark matter, the mysterious substance that makes up about 85% of all matter in the ...

Dark matter, time travel and meta theatre: Emma Howlett on Aether - Emma Howlett, one of theatre’s most exciting new voices, talks us through the dizzying ride that is Aether at the Jermyn Street Thea ...

Days after he was named Iran’s next supreme leader, and over a week since U.S. and Israeli bombing wiped out much of his family, Mojtaba Khamenei issued his ...

The MOTHRA telescope will use over a thousand lenses and narrowband filters to detect faint hydrogen gas linking galaxies.

The universe is overrun with dark matter, outweighing the ordinary stuff that stars and planets are made of five-to-one. But some corners of the cosmos are more dominated by the invisible substance ...

NASA said CDG-2 “may be among the most heavily dark matter-dominated galaxies ever discovered” NASA, ESA, Dayi Li (UToronto) A new galaxy, named Candidate Dark Galaxy-2 or CDG-2, was recently ...

Astronomers have spotted a galaxy so faint, it’s almost invisible — a discovery that could help illuminate one of the most elusive substances in the universe. The researchers found Candidate Dark ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A University of Sheffield team reports signs that dark matter and neutrinos may interact, offering a new way to explain a cosmic ...

Astronomers have just identified what appears to be a cosmic anomaly: a faint galaxy with so few visible stars that, according to calculations, as much as 99.9 percent of its mass is dark matter. The ...

In context: While it is still considered a hypothetical theory, dark matter is being actively studied by scientists looking for novel cosmological clues. It does not interact with light or other types ...

Dark matter doesn’t emit, absorb, or reflect light. It’s invisible but supposedly makes up 85% of the universe’s mass. Because it’s so abundant, astronomers believe it should explain many unsolved ...