A newly discovered celestial object may be a starless cloud that could change how astronomers understand dark matter.

When it comes to understanding the universe, what we know is only a sliver of the whole picture.

Nearly everything in the universe is made of mysterious dark matter and dark energy, yet we can’t see either of them directly ...

At the bottom of a nickel mine near Sudbury, Ontario, scientists at one of the world's most sophisticated particle physics observatories are investigating one of the biggest mysteries of the cosmos: ...

The discovery of galaxies orbiting the Milky Way isn’t new. They are called satellite galaxies and, so far we have observed 50 of them, 40 of which are faint. These faint galaxies are called dwarf ...

One mystery of dark matter is that it makes up the vast majority of all the matter in the Universe, yet we know surprisingly little about it. This mysterious “something” cannot be seen through light ...

Sarah T. Stewart is the director of the Shock Compression Lab at UC Davis and co-principal investigator for a new NSF-funded center to study a new area of physics. University of California, Davis, ...

Experts are hopeful that a new study on how dark matter moves through galaxies could finally lead to an understanding of the mysterious substance. “This study may be the ‘smoking gun’ evidence that ...

In popular science, dark matter is a hotly discussed topic. With various theories regarding its existence and interaction with regular matter, many scientists agree that these are some questions that ...

Superconductors share the position like fusion, of decades in, lots learned and no products yet. A new study shows that nickel oxide superconductors contain a type of quantum matter called charge ...

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Dark matter and dark energy are mysterious, unknown substances that are thought to make up more than 96 percent of ...

Thirty 8th-grade students were given an interview and a written test before and after a 10-week curriculum unit concerning matter, mass, volume, and density. The instruments probed qualitative ...