Finding dark matter would help to understand what the universe is made of. The LZ experiment may have made a breakthrough in ...

A South Dakota-based instrument built to detect theoretical dark matter particles has sensed a particle interaction that's ...

Using the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment, scientists may have detected the first direct evidence of dark matter, in the form of a rare ...

Scientists used Earth’s magnetic field and atmosphere as a planet-sized detector to search for some of the lightest proposed ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO)– A South Dakota science experiment is drawing international attention after researchers at the Sanford Underground Research Facility recorded what could be their most ...

Dark centre? A simulated version of the Milky Way galaxy. (Courtesy: AIP/ A. Khalatyan) Astronomers have long puzzled over the cause of a mysterious “glow” of very high energy gamma radiation ...

An unknown material fills the universe.

A new kind of dark matter could help explain some of the universe's mysteries, a new study suggests. The study proposes that there are dense clumps of "self-interacting dark matter", or SIDM, each ...

Astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian have proposed a new explanation for some of the universe's most puzzling early galaxies, nicknamed "little red dots." In the study, ...

A black hole is a region of space where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape. There are two main types of black hole; stellar mass and supermassive black holes, and they ...