The hunt for dark matter is shifting from particles to waves named after a laundry detergent. The hunt for dark matter is shifting from particles to waves named after a laundry detergent.

A new study has revealed a novel effect caused by dark photons—hypothetical particles thought to make up a portion of the universe's elusive dark matter. This discovery, made within the framework of ...

In recent years, a curious hypothetical particle called the axion, invented to address challenging problems with the strong nuclear force, has emerged as a leading candidate to explain dark matter.

Magnetic fields thread through galaxies, stretch across cosmic voids, and shape the behavior of charged particles over millions of light-years. Yet their origin remains one of the most stubborn ...

Evidence is growing for an ultralight dark matter particle called the axion. A study of light warped by galaxies has shown that it is better explained by axion dark matter than weakly interacting ...

Dark matter particles outnumber ordinary matter in the cosmos by about one to five, but scientists don’t yet know what these abundant particles actually are. Thus far, the most heavily favored ...

REGULAR readers of this column know that when it comes to dark matter candidates, I am something of an axion superfan. This hypothetical particle was theorised in the 1970s as part of a solution to a ...

Physicist Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski, dubbed the 'next Einstein' but rejecting the title, is leading research at the Perimeter Institute to decode the universe’s ‘source code’ through celestial ...