A new study says observations from the NASA Fermi space telescope suggest a halo of dark matter around the center of our ...

An effect first observed decades ago by Nobel laureate Arthur Ashkin has been used to fine tune the electrical charge on ...

Physicists tested light speed using cosmic gamma-ray bursts. Study confirms Einstein's prediction that all light colors travel at same speed.

A tantalizing gamma-ray signal at the heart of the Milky Way has revived one of physics’ most audacious hopes: that ...

Physicists using near-absolute-zero detectors have reached unprecedented sensitivity in the hunt for light dark matter. A ...

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NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope may have detected the first direct evidence for dark matter, according to new research ...

For nearly a century, astronomers have been convinced that most of the universe is made of something we can’t see. Now, fresh ...

More than 100 years after its existence was predicted, scientists report that they have, for the first time, seen dark matter ...

Not much has been uncovered about dark matter, the mysterious, invisible element that comprises around 25 per cent of the ...

What was once the leading explanation for dark matter may have simply been underestimating the mass of the particles that ...

It is thought that the earliest spark of a lightning bolt could arise directly from charged ice crystals. Yet the exact ...