In an experiment deep underground, a tiny flash of light may, ironically, mark the first detection of dark matter.

The LUX-ZEPLIN experiment has detected a rare particle interaction that looks unusually difficult to explain as ordinary background noise and appeared where dark matter might be…

The world’s biggest dark matter search saw a particle it cannot explain

Until now, evidence for dark matter has come from observing its apparent gravitational effects.

An unknown material fills the universe.