‘Zombie Stars’ Might Be a Beacon in Our Search for Dark Matter
As physicist Cumrun Vafa once told me, puzzles in science often come in pairs, each serving as the…
The biggest scientific breakthroughs of the last 25 years—and a few to watch
James Webb Space Telescope gives us the oldest ever look at the universe On December 25, 2021, space…
After nearly a century of looking, researchers may have finally detected dark matter
For nearly a century, something unseen has tugged at the cosmos. In the 1930s, Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky…
Has dark matter finally been seen? New study detects mysterious galactic glow
Published on 27/11/2025 – 12:16 GMT+1 A new study from the University of Tokyo claims that NASA’s Fermi…
A Physicist Ran the Numbers on What Would Happen if a Tiny Black Hole Passed Through Your Body
Credit: ZME Science/Midjourney. A tiny black hole zipping through your body sounds like the kind of death dreamed…
The Answer To Physics’ Dark Matter Problem Could Lie In The Fifth Dimension
Researchers have been looking at everything, including supernovas, trying to uncover the mysteries of dark matter. Recent scientific studies…
Could Dark Matter Be Under the Influence of a Mysterious “Fifth Force”?
New research is bringing fresh insights to one of cosmology’s most enduring mysteries: the question of whether dark…
Even Dark Matter Can’t Catch a Break From Gravity, Study Suggests
There’s still a lot we don’t know about dark matter, or the “missing” mass supposedly constituting around 85%…
Astronomers Hope a Mysterious Glow in the Milky Way Is What They Think It Is
For all the discoveries we’re making of faraway galaxies, we’re still struggling to fully understand our own galaxy, the…
Scientists May Have Found the Smallest Clump of Dark Matter Ever Seen — and It’s Still a Million Times Heavier Than the Sun
Overlay of the infrared emission (black and white) with the radio emission (colored). The dark, low-mass object is…