Results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) suggest that dark energy, a mysterious force in the universe, is ...

Dark matter is more than five times as abundant as all the visible matter in the universe. So why can't we see any of it?

A groundbreaking new study, recently published on arXiv, challenges one of the most fundamental assumptions in cosmology: ...

A strange break in a stream of stars in the Milky Way could be the result of dark matter, but only if the dark matter is hot and self-interacting.

These mousetraps for dark matter have since come a long way. Where GW proposed the use of a kilogram of metal for a day, today scientists expose tonnes of liquid xenon and argon to the dark-matter ...

Collisions between otherwise-inert xenon nuclei and stray particles produce small bursts of light and energy—signals scientists can examine to hunt for dark matter. The instruments lie more than ...

The LZ detector tries to capture the very rare and very faint interactions between dark matter and its 7-tonne liquid xenon target. To do this, LZ must be carefully and delicately calibrated and any ...

The experiment consists of a large double-walled tank filled with seven tonnes of liquid xenon, a noble gas chilled down to a temperature of 175 kelvin (–98°C). If a dark matter particle smacks ...

LUX-ZEPLIN, a dark matter detector made of 7 tonnes of liquid xenon buried 1.5 kilometres underground, is the most sensitive yet – but after 280 days of searching, it hasn’t found any WIMPs.

We wouldn’t exist without this mysterious yet fundamental piece of the universe; dark matter’s mass contributes to the gravitational attraction that helps galaxies form and stay together. LZ uses 10 ...

That’s what the two dark matter detectors have found. Each experiment houses several metric tons of liquid xenon. If a dark matter particle crashes into the nucleus of a xenon atom, the ...

The extra space has allowed experiments such as the Particle and Astrophysical Xenon Experiments (PandaX) and the China Dark Matter Experiment (CDEX) to upgrade. “It’s amazing what they’ve ...