Although it makes up everything we see and touch around us, ordinary matter only accounts for about 15 percent of the mass of the universe. The other 85 percent is believed to be dark matter, a ...

To say that neutrinos aren’t the easiest particles to study would be a bit of an understatement. Outside of dark matter, there’s not much in particle physics that is as slippery as the ...

To detect dark matter, you’ve got to go big. At 20 metres high and 25 metres wide, the XENON1T chamber is the largest dark matter detector in the world. Run by Italy’s National Institute for nuclear ...

LUX-ZEPLIN, a dark matter detector located in South Dakota, has set the best limits on particles that are the leading contenders for the identity of dark matter. Credit: Matthew Kapust/Sanford ...