Six thousand eight hundred feet below the floor of an active nickel mine in northern Ontario, something has gone extremely ...

An international team involving Northwestern University​ announced Tuesday that it has reached a major milestone in its quest ...

Scientists have chilled SuperCDMS detectors to near absolute zero in order to find dark matter that makes up 85 percent of ...

This brings us a huge leap forward in our understanding of the universe.

UC Santa Cruz physicist Stefano Profumo has put forward two imaginative but scientifically grounded theories that may help solve one of the biggest mysteries in physics: the origin of dark matter. In ...

Dark matter remains one of the most compelling enigmas in modern cosmology. Although it does not emit light, its gravitational influence is essential for the formation and evolution of cosmic ...

Dark matter remains one of the biggest mysteries in fundamental physics. Many theoretical proposals (axions, WIMPs) and 40 years of extensive experimental searches have failed to provide any ...

Scientists have long been puzzled by dark matter, an elusive substance that makes up about 27% of the universe. Recent breakthroughs in research are shedding light on its mysterious nature, ...

Determining the nature of dark matter, the invisible substance that makes up most of the mass in our universe, is one of the greatest puzzles in physics. New results from the world’s most sensitive ...

For all our telescopes and colliders, dark matter has remained an elusive ghost for the better part of a century. It outweighs everything we see by a factor of five, yet it slips past every detector ...

The magnum opus of particle physics is far from complete, requiring physicists to devise many alternatives—some weirder than ...

Now is a surreal time to be a dark matter researcher. Even as research funding is being cut by governments around the world, dark matter remains one of the biggest and most exciting open problems in ...