Researchers in the U.S. have carried out the most stringent tests to date of the idea that an ultraviolet glow in the ...

Scientists have shown that the giant planets of the solar system could help uncover the nature of dark matter, using faint ...

Giant worlds beyond the Solar System could be the probe we need to figure out how dark matter manifests in the Universe. According to a new study, one particular dark matter model could see the ...

New research suggests that dark matter could gather over vast periods of time at the heart of Jupiter-sized planets, creating black holes that eat these worlds from within. This striking concept may ...

Scientists have painted a scary scenario according to which black holes can form inside planets and chew through them, ultimately wiping them off the universe, but not fully. According to a study, ...

When dark matter particles enter planets, they are subject to scattering, capture, and annihilation. When they scatter—or collide—they impart kinetic energy into the planetary particles, which ...

A new theoretical framework suggests dark matter’s elusive behavior may arise from the geometry of a hidden fifth dimension.

Dark matter is one of the biggest puzzles in science. Although it makes up about 85 percent of all matter in the universe, it has never been directly observed. You can't see it, touch it, or hold it ...

With less than 20 percent of all physical matter made from visible stuff—from stars and planets, to the kitchen sink—astronomers continue to hypothesize what form the invisible majority of the ...

Possible interactions between dark matter and neutrinos may help explain a persistent mismatch in how cosmic structure evolved.

Watching for changes in Mars' orbit over time could be new way to detect passing dark matter, according to researchers. In a new study, MIT physicists propose that if most of the dark matter in the ...