W hat will it take to detect dark matter—the invisible, nigh-intangible substance that might make up five-sixths of all matter in the universe? Dark matter should be all around ...

Detecting dark matter particles and understanding their underlying physics is a long-standing research goal for many ...

Dark matter is a hypothetical form of matter believed to be everywhere, outnumbering regular matter (what we're made of) 5-to-1. It doesn’t emit or interact with light, so it is invisible to our ...

Detecting dark matter, the elusive type of matter predicted to account for most of the universe's mass, has so far proved to ...

A compact method of detecting neutrinos provides new tests of physics theories and could lead to new reactor-monitoring methods.

LUX-ZEPLIN’s central detector, the time projection chamber, in a surface lab clean room before delivery underground. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news ...

Cosmic rays coming from outside the Solar System bring these particles closer to the Sun, where they experience changes ...

Featuring the world’s largest digital camera, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will capture these mysterious phenomena in more ...

These two properties of axions mean that they are exceptionally good at collapsing down to incredibly high densities, pulled ...

Yet despite researchers’ best efforts over decades to work out the nature of this “dark matter” – to find some clue direct or indirect as to what it’s made of, or even make it in the lab ...