Data from the James Webb Space Telescope was used to create the largest, highest resolution map of dark matter, just ...

For nearly a century, scientists have been searching for dark matter — the fundamental, invisible substance believed to make up most of the cosmos. After nine decades of sustained effort, a new ...

WIMPs (weakly interacting massive particles) are one of the most serious contenders for dark matter—the “missing” mass supposedly constituting 85% of our universe. Given its elusiveness, dark ...

An artistic illustration of the mechanism proposed by Professor Stefano Profumo where quantum effects near the rapidly expanding cosmic horizon after the Big Bang gravitationally generate dark ...

A new map of the universe is offering fresh insight into one of its greatest mysteries.

At Texas A&M University, experimental particle physicist Dr. Rupak Mahapatra spends his days chasing some of the faintest signals in the universe. His lab designs cryogenic semiconductor detectors ...