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A composite image galaxy cluster collisions known as the Abell 2744 system, known as the Pandora's Cluster. In blue is a map showing the total mass concentration (mostly dark matter) based on data from the Hubble Space Telescope, the Very Large Telescope (VLT), and the Subaru telescope.

Space Telescope

‘Funny dark matter:’ Something is wrong about our theory of the expanding universe

Gold atom with nucleus and floating particles to depict what is matter

Particle Physics

What is matter? It’s not as basic as you’d think.

Euclid Space Telescope mounted on SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in a holding facility before dark energy and dark matter mission launch

Euclid space telescope begins its search through billions of galaxies for dark matter and energy

MAGIS-100 vacuum for a Fermilab quantum physics experiment

Particle Physics

Atoms are famously camera-shy. This dazzling custom rig can catch them.

White cylinder with wires, part of the LZ dark matter detector run the US Department of Energy

Particle Physics

The world’s best dark matter detector whiffed on its first try

By Jocelyn Solis-Moreira

The Large Hadron Collider's magnet chain.

Particle Physics

The souped-up Large Hadron Collider is back to take on its weightiest questions yet

CERN worker examining semiconducting magnets of Large Hardon Collider accelerator

Particle Physics

The biggest particle collider in the world gets back to work

By Purbita Saha

Glowing red sphere of light around a black hole in a NASA simulation

Giant black holes and dark matter may share a hot origin story

By Leto Sapunar

The ADMX experiment, used to look for axions.

Meet the mysterious particle that’s the dark horse in dark matter

By Leto Sapunar

NASA engineer standing in a tunnel holding six of the James Webb Telescope's hexagonal primary mirrors in the honeycomb formation

The James Webb telescope could help solve the mystery of dark matter

By Leto Sapunar

Astronomers may have found a galaxy that formed without dark matter

Astronomers may have found a galaxy that formed without dark matter

By Leto Sapunar

dark matter detector

Glimpse the gold mine where scientists are searching for dark matter

By Ryan Bradley

space telescopes

Half the matter in the universe was missing. We found it hiding between galaxies.

By Prochaska & Macquart/The Conversation

A webby, pink-and-orange mock-up of what the universe might look like.

Lowly slime molds are helping us map out the cosmos

By PopSci Editors

Physics Nobel spotlights scientists who discovered exoplanets and the recipe for the universe

Physics Nobel spotlights scientists who discovered exoplanets and the recipe for the universe

Dark matter has never killed anyone, and scientists want to know why

Dark matter has never killed anyone, and scientists want to know why

By Neel V. Patel

In memory of Vera Rubin, the woman the Nobel Prize forgot

In memory of Vera Rubin, the woman the Nobel Prize forgot

By Rachel Feltman

A map of the universe

Largest Map Ever Made Will Unlock The History Of The Universe

By Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Could There Be A Fifth Fundamental Force Of Nature?

Particle Physics

Could There Be A Fifth Fundamental Force Of Nature?

By Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Inside The Hunt For Dark Matter

Inside The Hunt For Dark Matter

By Corey S. Powell