Scientists have developed a groundbreaking atom interferometer capable of amplifying faint signals by 1,000 times — making it ...

Physicists searching for “dark forces” unexpectedly discovered deformed atomic nuclei. When top research teams collaborate, ...

These two properties of axions mean that they are exceptionally good at collapsing down to incredibly high densities, pulled together by their own (slight) gravity. Essentially, they can form a kind ...

Scientists are preparing to launch a dark matter detector into space. This project aims to understand this mysterious ...

Because we haven't found anything yet, we've started to wonder if dark matter might be lighter or heavier than we thought. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Data collected from a once-defunct NASA satellite show that Earth grew two extra radiation belts following a supercharged ...

Never has this been the case more than with dark matter. Though it's far more abundant than the matter we can see and feel, dark matter as we know it is virtually immune to observation ...

New data reveals a 3-million-light-year filament connecting two galaxies, each of which hosts a supermassive black hole.

Dark Messenger Searches at an Accelerator, or DAMSA, is an experimental collaboration involving 13 U.S. and 11 South Korean ...

Because we haven't found anything yet, we've started to wonder if dark matter might be lighter or heavier than we thought. Dark matter can't be too heavy or it might break our best model of the ...

The second cool thing about axions is that they are ... We don't know if axions exist or, if they do, if they're responsible for dark matter. But it's still fun to imagine a universe teeming ...