The aptly named SWEET project was developed by a team of researchers to use sugar crystals for detecting hypothetical light ...

Physicists chilled a sugar crystals then used them to search for dark matter. This new project is called SWEET.

Scientists in Virginia are looking for mysterious dark matter - and have turned to really old rocks. The substance, which makes up more than 80 percent of all matter in the universe, shapes and ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An illustration shows a galaxy embedded in a halo of dark matter; the search for this mysterious ...

What if I told you that while you can't see dark matter, maybe you can hear it? I know, I know, it sounds crazy…and it is ...

The world’s most sensitive dark matter detector still hasn’t found evidence of weakly interacting massive particles, or WIMPs, but the search continues. LZ’s central detector, the time projection ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The most sensitive dark matter detector in the world is showing results in the hunt for the hypothetical particle. The results: they can’t find it. “If you think of the search for dark ...

Does dark matter interact with itself? The answer may lie in vast clusters of colliding galaxies. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

The search for dark matter may progress more quickly than expected, thanks to a new proposal to use the global network of GPS satellites to probe the nature of the universe. Share on Facebook (opens ...

Dark matter, the invisible stuff that scientists believe makes up around 85 percent of the mass in the universe, remains one of science’s biggest mysteries. As far as anyone has been able to establish ...

The neutrino “fog” is beginning to materialize. Lightweight subatomic particles called neutrinos have begun elbowing their way into the data of experiments not designed to spot them. Two experiments, ...

One of the fundamental challenges of researching dark matter is our inability to detect it. While it constitutes an estimated 27% of all the estimated mass and energy in the observable universe, it ...