These “miniature trails of destruction,” as the researchers call them, are caused by high-energy particles bouncing off the ...

For the first time, two dark matter experiments have detected a neutrino fog, a dense cloud of neutrinos. This discovery is ...

Analyzing billion-year-old rocks, researchers at Virginia Tech hope to find traces of dark matter. The idea was first ...

On a mountain in northern Chile, scientists are carefully assembling the intricate components of the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin ...

For nearly 10 years we’ve been operating in a search mode, and any day we could make a discovery,” said Gray Rybka, a ...

Fancy telescopes and massive particle accelerators aren’t the only tools that can be used to detect dark matter. Researchers ...

(Photo by Spencer Coppage for Virginia Tech) Huber, who is building a new lab to test dark matter theories, has been awarded several million dollars from the National Science Foundation and ...

If you're a fan of Netflix's Dark series, do not miss out on watching Dark Matter, another sci-fi series on Apple TV+. While the Netflix original has three triumphant seasons, there's currently only ...

A Virginia Tech-led team is hunting for dark matter — not with telescopes or particle colliders — but by scrutinizing billion ...

With advancements in imaging technology, the first successful dark matter detector might turn out to be an ancient rock. The visible universe — every potato, gas giant, steamy romance novel, black ...

Scientists in Virginia are looking for mysterious dark matter - and have turned to really old rocks. The substance, which makes up more than 80 percent of all matter in the universe, shapes and ...

The search for dark matter includes expertise in radio frequency signal detection, quantum sensing, and high-energy physics ...