Researchers led by the University of Bristol have identified a mysterious particle interaction deep beneath the United States, and while they are emphatically not claiming the discovery of dark matter ...

In physics, Schrödinger's cat is a thought experiment in which a cat is trapped in a box with a particle that has a 50-50 ...

Rice University researchers have used a magnetically levitated particle to search for ultraheavy dark matter, extending the ...

Dark matter is an invisible substance that is said to bind the universe; scientists may have found new signs of it.

An “incredibly exciting” finding could turn out to be the first-ever direct observation of the mysterious substance that ...

For nearly a century, the quest to identify dark matter—a mysterious substance believed to constitute approximately 85% of all matter in the universe—has ...

Deep beneath the French-Swiss border, CERN’s Large Hadron Collider sends protons crashing together at extraordinary speeds, allowing scientists to study the fundamental building blocks of matter and ...

The LUX-ZEPLIN detector captured a high-energy collision, potentially signaling dark matter, but researchers urge caution in ...

For more than a century, quantum mechanics and Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity have each passed countless tests, but physicists have struggled to reconcile the two. Now, scientists in ...

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

Physicists have proven a 100-year-old prediction of relativity by showing that Einstein's equivalence principle holds at ...

The LZ experiment observed a particle interaction that could be interpreted as a signal from WIMPS, a dark matter candidate — ...