Seen from this perspective, we've already paid something like $5-6 billion for our Distributed Orbital Dark Matter Detector -- only a little less than the Large Hadron Collider itself cost.

The nature of dark matter has confounded scientists for decades, but a new development could help resolve this mystery within the next 15 years.

With results published in July 2023, the LUX-ZEPLIN, or LZ, collaboration has done just that, building the largest dark matter detector to date and operating it 4,850 feet (1,478 meters ...

They’ve developed the foundation for a powerful new detector that could identify dark matter—the invisible substance thought to make up 85% of all matter—within just 15 years.

The race to build the most sensitive direct-detection dark matter experiment got a bit more competitive with the Department of Energy’s approval of a key construction milestone on Feb.9.

Marsh predicts that a fully operational prototype of the dark matter detector could be up and running by 2030, leaving the researchers another 10 years to make a positive axion detection.