"WIMPs are still the leading candidate for dark matter, but billions of dollars of experiments have been done, only getting ...

You can't see, feel, hear, taste or smell them, but tiny particles from space are constantly raining down on us.

They're called ghost particles for a reason. They're everywhere—trillions of them constantly stream through everything: our ...

Our universe plays by certain rules, which originate from different branches of physics. But sometimes the rules seem ...

New research puts forward compelling new evidence that dark matter interacts with cosmic "ghost particles" called neutrinos.

The handheld particle detector CosmicWatch is roughly the size of a box of animal crackers. Every time a muon passes through ...

A new theory suggests fusion reactors could help scientists search for axions, mysterious particles that may explain dark ...

An analysis of several experiments aimed at detecting the mysterious neutrino has identified a hint of a crack in the ...