Largest-Ever Physics Survey Raises New Doubts About Our Model of the Universe
A global survey of physicists reveals strikingly little consensus on some of the deepest questions in modern physics,…
Two of the Universe’s Great Mysteries May Have Their Own Dimension
According to the standard model of cosmology, that expansion rate should be the same no matter how you…
Chinese-German team builds ultra-sensitive ‘floating compass’ to hunt dark matter
Chinese researchers have developed a table-top magnetic sensor that operates at room temperature and can spot magnetic signals…
Researchers tested gravity across galaxy clusters separated by hundreds of millions of light-years and found it behaves almost exactly as Newton and Einstein predicted, strengthening the case for dark matter
Astronomers have discovered that stars in the outer portions of galaxies tend to move much faster than expected…
Scientists Have Found the Most Convincing Evidence Yet of a Dark Matter Particle
More than a kilometer underground, in what used to be a gold mine, inside a tank filled with…
Physicists Spot Curious Signal in Hunt for Elusive Dark Matter Particles
Physicists using the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) dark matter detector deep underground in a former South Dakota gold mine say…
Did Scientists Just Catch a Glimpse of a Dark Matter Particle?
“While we’re excited, we also need to be cautious,” says Daniel Akerib, a particle physicist at Stanford University, and…
Astronomers hear a mysterious ‘hum’ across the universe; one explanation begins with strange dark stars 13 billion years ago
Astronomers may have found a new way to investigate one of the biggest mysteries in cosmic history: how…
9 Things to Know About NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
Roman joins an international cohort of teamworking telescopes. Roman will work in tandem with many other NASA-led and…
Astronomers Think They’ve Found the Best Evidence for Dark Matter Yet
Dark matter, the elusive, invisible stuff that astronomers say constitutes roughly 85% of the universe’s mass, doesn’t interact…
NASA’s New Space Telescope Is Poised to Discover Hidden Facets of the Universe
“If we consider what the James Webb Space Telescope is doing, it’s optimized towards looking at the very…
Cosmic plasma was supposed to rule out dark photons. Simulations say otherwise
A major limit on dark photon dark matter may be far weaker because early-universe plasma stops absorbing energy…