An underground detector recorded a strange interaction pointing to a particle with some properties that signify dark matter. The detection is small but promising.

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…

Scientists used Earth’s magnetic field and atmosphere as a planet-sized detector to search for some of the lightest proposed forms of dark matter. The approach dramatically…

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.