When it comes to understanding the universe, what we know is only a sliver of the whole picture.

Nearly everything in the universe is made of mysterious dark matter and dark energy, yet we can’t see either of them directly ...

Dark matter is believed to make up most of the universe, yet no one has ever seen it directly. To find it, scientists have ...

Dark matter is an elusive type of matter that does not emit, absorb or reflect light, interacting very weakly with ordinary matter. These characteristics make it impossible to detect using ...

At Texas A&M University, experimental particle physicist Dr. Rupak Mahapatra spends his days chasing some of the faintest ...

In a chilled lab where temperatures drop close to absolute zero, a speck of magnet hovers in place. This tiny magnet, levitating silently inside a special trap, may hold answers to one of the greatest ...

Chinese scientists have for the first time directly observed the Migdal effect in neutron-nucleus collisions in an experiment ...

Advanced quantum detectors designed at Texas A&M University are reinventing the search for dark matter, an unseen force that ...

In a landmark discovery that bridges nearly a century of theoretical physics, a Chinese research team has successfully ...

For all our telescopes and colliders, dark matter has remained an elusive ghost for the better part of a century. It outweighs everything we see by a factor of five, yet it slips past every detector ...

Christopher Tunnell is an associate professor of physics and astronomy at Rice. Dark matter, although not visible, is believed to make up most of the total mass of the universe. One theory suggests ...

Dark matter and dark energy make up about 95% of the universe, leaving only 5% “ordinary matter,” or what we can see. Dr.