Scientists May Have Finally Seen Dark Matter
The universe has no shortage of mysteries, many of which have puzzled us for ages. One of the…
Transforming sensitivity to new physics with single-top-quark events
The top quark, the heaviest known elementary particle, has captivated physicists since its discovery in the 1990s and…
NASA Completes Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Construction
NASA’s next big eye on the cosmos is now fully assembled. On Nov. 25, technicians joined the inner…
After nearly a century of looking, researchers may have finally detected dark matter
For nearly a century, something unseen has tugged at the cosmos. In the 1930s, Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky…
Gamma-ray signal may reveal direct evidence of dark matter
NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope may have provided humanity’s first direct observational evidence of dark matter, according to…
NASA telescope data hints at first direct detection of dark matter
Dark matter has long been the universe’s most profound ghost, its existence confirmed only by the gravitational havoc…
A Physicist Ran the Numbers on What Would Happen if a Tiny Black Hole Passed Through Your Body
Credit: ZME Science/Midjourney. A tiny black hole zipping through your body sounds like the kind of death dreamed…
The Answer To Physics’ Dark Matter Problem Could Lie In The Fifth Dimension
Researchers have been looking at everything, including supernovas, trying to uncover the mysteries of dark matter. Recent scientific studies…
Scientists Think They Figured Out How and When the Universe Will End
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A new paper adjusts an equation that defines our…
Could Dark Matter Be Under the Influence of a Mysterious “Fifth Force”?
New research is bringing fresh insights to one of cosmology’s most enduring mysteries: the question of whether dark…
Even Dark Matter Can’t Catch a Break From Gravity, Study Suggests
There’s still a lot we don’t know about dark matter, or the “missing” mass supposedly constituting around 85%…
Our New Ally In Our Quest to Find Dark Matter? Sugar
Crystals, mainly sugar, in a dried Coca Cola droplet, taken with a microscope using cross polarization. Credit: Wikimedia…