A quest for dark matter answers: football-field-sized balloon takes flight in Antarctica : Maui Now
The GAPS experiment prepares to launch from Antarctica. (Photo credit: NASA/Andy Hamilton) A groundbreaking scientific experiment aimed at…
LZ detector marks a new era in the search for light dark matter and neutrinos
Far beneath the Black Hills of South Dakota, a tank of liquid xenon is quietly recording some of…
Scientists May Have Finally Seen Dark Matter
The universe has no shortage of mysteries, many of which have puzzled us for ages. One of the…
NASA Completes Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Construction
NASA’s next big eye on the cosmos is now fully assembled. On Nov. 25, technicians joined the inner…
After nearly a century of looking, researchers may have finally detected dark matter
For nearly a century, something unseen has tugged at the cosmos. In the 1930s, Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky…
If a tiny black hole passed through your body would it hurt you?
Black holes keep showing up in the news. Scientists have recorded the space ripples from their violent crashes…
The Answer To Physics’ Dark Matter Problem Could Lie In The Fifth Dimension
Researchers have been looking at everything, including supernovas, trying to uncover the mysteries of dark matter. Recent scientific studies…
New quantum sensors aim to detect hidden forces behind dark matter
For decades, you have heard scientists say that most of the universe is missing. They are not being…
How shipwrecks and ancient Roman lead help physicists search for dark matter
When a 2,000-year-old Roman shipwreck was found off the Sardinian coast in 1988, it didn’t just thrill archaeologists…
Could Dark Matter Be Under the Influence of a Mysterious “Fifth Force”?
New research is bringing fresh insights to one of cosmology’s most enduring mysteries: the question of whether dark…
Dark matter obeys the same cosmic rules as ordinary matter, study finds
Most people rarely experience the effects of dark matter in ordinary life. However, we live in an environment…
Even Dark Matter Can’t Catch a Break From Gravity, Study Suggests
There’s still a lot we don’t know about dark matter, or the “missing” mass supposedly constituting around 85%…