A new hunt for dark matter — an invisible but bountiful constituent of the universe — is under way inside an underground laboratory a mile and half below Ontario, Canada, scientists report. Full story
DENVER — Hints of dark matter, the mysterious stuff that makes up perhaps 85 percent of the matter in the universe, may have been observed by scientists. Full story
GENEVA (Reuters) - Scientists said on Wednesday they may be close to tracking down the mysterious "dark matter", the substance which makes up more than a quarter of the universe but has never been seen. Full story
Physicists announced today (April 3) that a particle detector on the International Space Station has possibly detected signals of dark matter. Full story
With the recent confirmation of a Higgs Boson discovery, many physicists were at least a little disappointed. That's because all signs point to it confirming the Standard Model, the nearly 100-year-old theory that explains the tiny bits of matter that make up the universe. Full story
Big news in the search for dark matter may be coming in about two weeks, the leader of a space-based particle physics experiment said Sunday at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Full story
CDMS search for dark matter.
Particle physicist Marc Goulette gestures in front of the ATLAS experiment during a visit at the Organization for Nuclear Research in Meyrin, near Geneva April 10, 2013. As hundreds of engineers and workers start two years of work to fit out the giant LHC particle collider to reach deep into unkno
This composite image shows the distribution of dark matter, galaxies, and hot gas in the core of the merging galaxy cluster Abell 520, formed from a violent collision of massive galaxy clusters. Starlight from galaxies is indicated in orange. Green indicates hot gas, and blue indicates mass, most of
Recent observations show that dark matter in the universe is distributed as a network of gigantic dense and empty regions, where the largest white regions are about the size of Earth's moon on the sky.
This visualization of the dark matter halo surrounding a large cluster of galaxies was created using the Bolshoi cosmological simulation.
