Besides particles like sterile neutrinos, axions and weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), a leading candidate for ...

Researchers repurposed an experiment originally intended to detect gravity, which involved a floating magnet in a ...

Dark matter is more than five times as abundant as all the visible matter in the universe. So why can't we see any of it?

It shapes galaxies and bends light, but is dark matter even real? Find out what scientists know, what they’re still guessing, and why this mystery matters.

With big outstanding questions and little hints of new physics, physicists are now rethinking some of their most fundamental ...

White holes are theoretical bodies in physics that are basically time-reversed black holes, meaning instead of permanently trapping matter inside themselves, they release it ...

Much remains unknown, such as the true nature of the dark matter that dominates gravity inside galaxies and the dark energy that drives the universe’s accelerating expansion. Yet even for these ...

Dark energy and dark matter refers to the unseen energy and matter components of the Universe. Dark matter is invisible, non-baryonic matter hypothesized to explain phenomena including ...

JWST has detected the earliest galaxies in the universe, but some look “more mature” than expected. Is it time to rethink how ...

Grimes shared she is cancelling her upcoming Pride concert in Washington, D.C., in order to deal with what she described as ...

Two UT Austin physicists were part of a collaboration that won the Breakthrough Prize for work at the Large Hadron Collider.

Wide binary stars with separation greater than about 2000 astronomical units are interesting natural laboratories that allow ...