Sep. 15—A mile beneath the surface at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in South Dakota, a single unknown particle separated from light, air and cosmic rays collided with the nucleus of a ...

Scientists may have found the most compelling evidence of dark matter to date - The discovery might pave the way for answering one of the biggest unresolved questions about our universe ...

An unexplained event deep underground could offer a rare clue to the particles that make up dark matter.

The LUX-ZEPLIN experiment has detected a rare particle interaction that looks unusually difficult to explain as ordinary ...

For nearly a century, scientists have been trying to identify dark matter, the mysterious material believed to account for ...

For years, a favorite suspect was a hypothetical particle called a WIMP, short for weakly interacting massive particle. The idea was appealing because such particles could have been produced naturally ...

Scientists believe they may be a step closer to detecting dark matter for the first time. Science editor Ian Sample explains to Madeleine Finlay why, if confirmed, the finding could completely transfo ...

The LZ photodetectors, before they were installed in the experiment facility. (Matthew Kapust/Sanford Underground Research Facility) In an experiment deep underground, a tiny flash of light may, ...

More than a kilometer underground, in what used to be a gold mine, inside a tank filled with tons of liquid xenon, “something” struck the nucleus of an atom. The tiny collision left an unusual energy ...

A mysterious glow of gamma rays at the center of the Milky Way has long hinted at dark matter, but the lack of similar signals in smaller dwarf galaxies has cast doubt on that idea. Now, researchers ...

The mysterious material has eluded scientists for nearly a century.