Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An Antarctic experiment looking to detect dark matter in space led by University of Hawaii Manoa was launched on Dec. 15. A device ...

A multi-institutional team of scientists used the Northwestern Experimental Underground Site (NEXUS) at the ...

Fusion power has long been sold as the technology that could light our cities with the same process that powers the stars. Now a new line of research suggests those same reactors might also be ...

New research published in Physical Review Letters suggests that superconducting magnets used in dark matter detection experiments could function as highly precise gravitational wave detectors, thereby ...

Have you ever stood by the sea and been overwhelmed by its vastness, by how quickly it could roll in and swallow you? Evidence suggests that we are suspended in a cosmic sea of dark matter, a ...

Dark matter is thought to outnumber regular matter by a factor of five to one – so why can’t we find the stuff? A new study proposes looking for it from space, using a satellite containing a ...

UC Santa Cruz physicist Stefano Profumo has put forward two imaginative but scientifically grounded theories that may help solve one of the biggest mysteries in physics: the origin of dark matter. In ...

Photomultiplier tubes from the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in South Dakota. The LZ experiment is designed to detect dark matter particles from flashes of light ...

The GAPS experiment, right, prepares to launch from Antarctica. The device will help search for rare cosmic antimatter. The project builds on years of preparation, the release said, including ...