Science has found its first candidate for a dark-matter detector. It’s a really old rock Dark matter is a mysterious, invisible substance makes up more than 80 percent of all matter in the universe ...

And while XENON1T was built to capture the interaction between a dark matter particle and the nucleus of a xenon atom, the detector actually picks up signals from any interactions with the xenon.

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 ...

Experimental results from the XENON1T dark matter detector limit the effective size of dark matter particles to 4.1X10-47 square centimeters—one-trillionth of one-trillionth of a centimeter ...

We may already have had our first-ever encounter with dark matter, according to researchers who say a mysteriously high-energy particle detected in 2023 is not a neutrino after all, but something ...

(Image credit: CJPL) Dark matter — an invisible substance that somehow makes up over 80 percent of all matter in the universe — is a phenomenon that frustratingly eludes scientists.