Dark matter, the invisible substance that shapes the Universe, may have had a far more dramatic beginning than scientists once believed.

Researchers from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities and Université Paris-Saclay have reopened one of cosmology’s oldest ...

Dark matter, the mysterious substance that makes up roughly 80 percent of all the matter in the universe, may have been forged before our cosmos was even born. Scientists have long theorized as to ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Robert Lea (created with Canva) Our common understanding of the universe tells us that ...

For nearly a century, dark matter has stood as one of the most perplexing mysteries in modern physics. Despite its invisibility, its existence is undeniable, as it exerts gravitational effects that ...

Observing the interactions between dark matter and so-called "dark photons" during a period after the Big Bang called the ...

How did the first galaxies after the Big Bang form and evolve? Were they small and attributed to dark matter or were they large and some other force attributed to their growth? This is what a recent ...

In collisions at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, hotter than the Sun’s core by a staggering margin, scientists have finally solved a long-standing mystery: how delicate particles like deuterons and ...