29 September 2021
Black holes born in the big bang could be the dark matter physicists have sought for decades – if they exist. Now there's an audacious plan to find the scars they would have left as they punched through the moon
2 December 2020
Many galaxies seem to have bubbles of dark matter enveloping them, but finding out if every galaxy is like this is an ongoing area of research, writes Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
5 June 2019
New experiments are revealing hints of a world and a reality that are complete reflections of ours. This mirrorverse may be able to solve the mystery of the universe's missing dark matter
4 December 2018
Dark matter is the mysterious glue that holds everything together – but will we ever pin down its true nature? Astrophysicist Chamkaur Ghag thinks we will
6 December 2017
Something is tearing everything apart even faster than we thought – and not even atoms will survive, never mind our picture of how the universe evolved
5 December 2017
If dark matter isn't heavy and interacts even weakly with normal matter, we should drag our detectors out from underground to catch it
24 May 2017
The loss of countless tiny drops of energy since the start of the universe might be behind the flood of dark energy accelerating the cosmos’s expansion
