What is the nature of dark matter? A new experiment led by Columbia University physics professors aims to find out.

Because dark matter is completely invisible to light, science had to look for clever new methods to spot it.

A mysterious excess of far-ultraviolet light seen across the Milky Way could come from the annihilation of clumpy dark matter ...

Fusion reactors might help detect dark matter, suggests a study with contributions from a University of Cincinnati professor.

Reactors designed to produce energy from the fusion of atoms could have an unexpected scientific side benefit. An ...

The General AntiParticle Spectrometer experiment is suspended from a football-field-sized balloon about 24 miles above the ...

Gravitational wave astronomy is starting to do more than confirm Einstein’s equations. It is turning into a precision tool ...

In recent years, astronomers have become increasingly interested in a theoretical particle known as the axion, which was ...

A research team from the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory (XAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed an ...

With contributions from Brown faculty and students, the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment analyzed the largest dataset ever collected by a dark matter detector, and the results provide the strongest constraints ...

A scientific experiment aimed at detecting dark matter in space launched from Antarctica on December 15, with significant ...

Normal matter – which makes up everything we see and touch – isn’t the only type of matter present in the universe.