What 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 us, exerting tiny ...

Dark matter could be an entire dark sector of the universe, with its own particles and forces H ave you ever stood by the sea ...

Sensitive detectors let TESSERACT search for dark matter in mass ranges no other experiment has explored. Roger K. Romani, ...

Aug. 26, 2024 — New results from the world's most sensitive dark matter detector put the best-ever limits on particles called WIMPs, a leading candidate for what makes up our universe's invisible ...

A strange energy source at the center of the Milky Way may be a new type of dark matter. Scientists found that hydrogen gas ...

TESSERACT addresses a problem common to sensitive detectors: a persistent but unexplained source of excess noise at low energies, the same region where dark matter might lurk. The experiment's ...

effectively turning these instruments into excellent dark matter detectors. Thanks to the precision of the team’s technology (WINERED), they were able to account for all the light they detected ...

There are a few reasons why putting your dark matter detector deep beneath the Earth is good. Some have to do with the nature of dark matter. The belief that it is out there comes from the fact ...

Scientists suspect lightweight dark matter might ionize hydrogen in the Milky Way’s core. This could also explain the 511-keV ...

Supersymmetry, long considered the golden child of theoretical physics, has officially lost its luster at the world’s ...

"We are able to measure the local dark matter density using direct acceleration measurements for the first time." ...