A matching phone number in disclosure paperwork suggests a Las Vegas Sands lobbyist may be behind a "dark money" group that ...

Besides particles like sterile neutrinos, axions and weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), a leading candidate for ...

The study seeks to explain the presence of dark matter using a WED model. The scientists studied fermion masses, which they ...

In a new study published in Physical Review Letters, scientists have estimated a new lower bound on the mass of ultra-lightweight bosonic dark matter particles.

Axions, hypothetical subatomic particles that were first proposed by theoretical physicists in the late 1970s, remain among the most promising dark matter candidates. Physics theories suggest that the ...

Candidate 1: WIMP At the Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Italy, the world's largest underground laboratory, researchers are searching for dark matter using detectors filled with liquid xenon.

open image in gallery Ph.D. candidate Keegan Walkup, left, and physicist Patrick Huber work in the new lab that Huber is establishing to look for evidence of dark matter traces inside the crystal ...

That's the conclusion reached by a team of researchers led by Dion Noordhuis of the University of Amsterdam, who previously investigated what would happen to particular dark matter candidates ...

What about the Axions? Axions are hypothetical particles that are lighter than WIMPs, but they still have qualities that make them good candidates for dark matter. Particularly, if they exist ...

Scientists are now turning to a wider array of search strategies—and a longer list of potential dark matter candidates—in an effort to crack the almost century-old mystery. The LUX-ZEPLIN ...

And even a lack of a signal is a scientific triumph when it manages to exclude such a wide range of dark matter candidates, says Scott Kravitz, deputy physics coordinator for LZ and a particle ...

New results from the world's most sensitive dark matter detector put the best-ever limits on particles called WIMPs, a leading candidate for what makes up our universe's invisible mass. Figuring ...