Why didn’t the universe annihilate itself moments after the big bang? A new finding at Cern on the French-Swiss border brings us closer to answering this fundamental question about why matter ...

New research shows that dark matter has a different distribution in our galaxy than previously thought, and that advances dark matter's status as a potential source of the observed gamma ray excess in ...

A team of researchers scrutinizing the brightest gamma-ray burst in at least 10,000 years identified a unique emission line that it believes could reveal some extreme physics at the heart of the burst ...

When trying to identify the nature of dark matter, sometimes it’s the things it doesn’t do that tell us the most, like ...

Physicists working at the CERN particle physics lab said they detected a slight but significant difference in how particles of matter and antimatter decay. By Kenneth Chang Understanding why matter ...

An overabundance of antimatter in showers of charged particles that bombard Earth called cosmic rays could reveal the secrets of dark matter, the universe's most mysterious "stuff," a new study ...

Two papers published this week showcase the perplexing origins and potential uses of antimatter, a type of matter that flips the rules governing ordinary matter onto their heads. One paper, published ...

Two fresh ideas are giving scientists new ways to think about how the universe’s hidden mass came to be. Together, they paint a richer picture of dark matter’s origins and how we might still discover ...

Select an option below to continue reading this premium story. Already a Honolulu Star-Advertiser subscriber? Log in now to continue reading. Baryogenesis is another theory that attempts to explain ...

'The amount of antinuclei detected cannot be explained by known processes in the universe.' When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. An ...