Dark matter is one of nature's most confounding mysteries. It keeps particle physicists up at night and cosmologists glued to ...

How do you weigh one of the largest objects in the entire universe? Very carefully, according to new research.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has produced a new image of the Bullet Cluster, which is a titanic collision between ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope recently zeroed in on the Bullet Cluster—delivering highly detailed images that show a ...

The latest experiment also represents the first time the LZ team applied a technique called “salting,” in which false WIMP ...

A proton’s mass is just under 1 GeV/c², and most WIMP searches have focused on the mass range between 10 and 1,000 GeV/c². (Particle physicists find it convenient to measure masses in units of ...

For ordinary matter, momentum is given by the formula P = mv, where P is momentum, m is mass, and v is velocity. Even tiny amounts of matter can have vast amounts of momentum if the matter is ...