This video explores the enigma of dark matter, an elusive substance believed to make up most of the universe's matter. While ...

For decades, astronomers have treated dark matter as the invisible scaffolding of the cosmos, a mysterious substance that outweighs normal matter and shapes galaxies. A new wave of research is now ...

Modern cosmology assumes dark matter exists. But what makes us so certain that dark matter is the answer—and what if we're wrong?

Researchers have been looking at everything, including supernovas, trying to uncover the mysteries of dark matter. Recent scientific studies suggest that dark matter might not be a particle hiding in ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to CuriousKidsUS@theconversation.com. Can we generate a way to interact with dark ...

Now is a surreal time to be a dark matter researcher. Even as research funding is being cut by governments around the world, dark matter remains one of the biggest and most exciting open problems in ...

Knotted structures once imagined by Lord Kelvin may actually have shaped the universe’s earliest moments, according to new research showing how two powerful symmetries could have created stable ...