Instead of searching for dark matter particles, a new device will search for dark matter waves. Researchers are testing a prototype “radio” that could let them listen to the tune of mysterious dark ...

The physicists who run the world’s most sensitive experimental search for dark matter have seen something strange. They have uncovered an unexpected excess of events inside their detector that could ...

Theorists think dark matter was forged in the hot aftermath of the Big Bang. Transitions are everywhere we look. Water freezes, melts, or boils; chemical bonds break and form to make new substances ...

In a much-anticipated analysis of its first year of data, the Dark Energy Survey (DES) telescope experiment has gauged the amount of dark energy and dark matter in the universe by measuring the ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. When it comes to understanding the fabric of the universe, most of what scientists think exists is consigned to a dark, murky domain.

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