When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Dark matter can't be too heavy or it might break our best model of the universe, new research ...

"It marks an exciting step forward in our understanding of dark matter and the dynamics of the Milky Way." A perplexing "break" in a stream of stars around the Milky Way could be the result of ...

Dark matter, predicted to account for most of the universe's mass, remains highly elusive. Physicists have been searching for various particles that could be promising dark matter candidates ...

Another area attracting huge amounts of funding is nuclear fusion, with the goal to get to a working nuclear fusion reactor within the next ten years. One milestone for late 2025 could be the ...

In most nuclear reactors, uranium decays into plutonium ... A way for scientists to finally detect dark matter. The presence of dark matter has still not been directly observed by scientists ...