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Why should Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn get all the attention?

Answers to the biggest mysteries may lie well outside traditional paradigms.

Dark matter might be fluid in galaxies but something else on vaster, cosmological scales.

Reina Maruyama wasn’t expecting her particle detector to work buried deep in ice. She was wrong.

Maybe Newtonian physics doesn't need dark matter to work, but Mordehai Milgrom instead.

The binary pairing of Darkness and Light is so basic to human culture, no other name for the unseen stuff could do.

Physicists are rethinking how to use the Large Hadron Collider to search for dark matter.

what is dark matter. Mystery two: how to unify physics. Are they the same mystery?

This weird type of dark matter would also puff up galaxies and make stars age prematurely.

Without the extra heft of dark matter, you wouldn’t be here.

This isn’t the first time that scientists have wrestled with the unseen.

Turns out, we've been debating the notion of infinite worlds for millennia.