For Cabot-Ann Christofferson and Alissa Love, the morning began like many others: a ride in a metal cage 4,850 feet straight ...

The discovery of what is potentially the smallest clump of dark matter ever seen strengthens the case for cold dark matter.

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 ...

The LUX-ZEPLIN detector is breaking new ground in the hunt for dark matter, setting unprecedented limits on WIMP particles. Its results not only narrow the possibilities for dark matter but also open ...

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 ...

Tohoku University researchers have found a way to make quantum sensors more sensitive by connecting superconducting qubits in ...

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

Dark matter remains one of the most mysterious substances in the universe. We can’t see it, but we know it’s out there, ...

Crews at the Sanford Underground Research Laboratory in Lead begin to lower the LUX-ZEPLIN central detector. Its nearly mile-long descent down an elevator shaft, and its delivery to a research cavern ...

To unlock the secrets of dark matter, scientists could turn to supermassive black holes and their ability to act as natural superpowered particle colliders. That's according to new research that found ...