Dark matter, the invisible glue that outweighs normal matter in the cosmos, is starting to look less like a passive backdrop and more like a player with its own rules. As astronomers push their ...

Hints that dark matter might be destroying itself have flickered through astronomical data for more than a decade, but a new analysis claims the clearest signal yet of that violent process. Instead of ...

Dark matter is some kind of substance that has gravity—it holds galaxies together—yet cannot be directly seen with any ...

(via PBS Space Time) Some people worried that the large hadron collider would smash particles together so hard it would make black holes that would swallow the earth, open wormholes to other ...

The Higgs boson may open a portal to hidden particles that could explain dark matter. Fears that the Large Hadron Collider might create world-destroying black holes never came true. But it may open a ...