These “miniature trails of destruction,” as the researchers call them, are caused by high-energy particles bouncing off the ...

If you’re exploring the frontier of known particle physics, examining neutron stars, which produce some of the most intense ...

With advancements in imaging technology, the first successful dark matter detector might turn out to be an ancient rock. The visible universe — every potato, gas giant, steamy romance novel, black ...

Researchers from Virginia Tech propose that ancient rocks may contain traces of dark matter through a method known as ...

On a mountain in northern Chile, scientists are carefully assembling the intricate components of the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin ...

These axions could form an explanation for the elusive dark matter that cosmologists search for -- and moreover, they might not be ... Oct. 31, 2024 — For Halloween, the European Southern ...

Scientists suggest black holes may contain dark energy, accelerating the universe's growth. Future studies aim to confirm ...

For nearly 10 years we’ve been operating in a search mode, and any day we could make a discovery,” said Gray Rybka, a ...

If axions fall within a specific mass range, they are expected to behave like dark matter. This could explain the pronounced ...

"If axion clouds, and thereby axions, are discovered, this would be a massive step toward solving the dark matter problem." Scientists think it's possible that shrouds of hypothetical particles ...

The search for dark matter includes expertise in radio frequency signal detection, quantum sensing, and high-energy physics ...

Black hole formation could be a little Big Bang in reverse, coupling the matter of a dying star with dark energy, the ...