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

This Is a Big Deal! exclaims Geoff Brumfiel at Nature: "I can't think of another case where the future of an entire field hinges on the success of a single experiment...It could verify current ...

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

The neutrino “fog” is beginning to materialize. Lightweight subatomic particles called neutrinos have begun elbowing their way into the data of experiments not designed to spot them. Two experiments, ...

Australian researchers have played a central role in a landmark result from the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment in South Dakota—the world's most sensitive dark matter detector. Today, scientists working on ...

"If you think about it like a radio, the search for dark matter is like tuning the dial to search for one particular radio station. Our method is like doing a scan of 100,000 radio stations." When you ...

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