Physicists thought they had built the detector to rule them all. A mile underground in a former South Dakota gold mine, the Large Underground Xenon detector was the latest, greatest attempt to find ...

More than a decade ago, dark matter experts Daniel Akerib and Thomas Shutt joined the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, continuing their mission to uncover the elusive ...

In a lab buried under the Apennine Mountains of Italy, Elena Aprile, a professor of physics at Columbia University, is racing to unearth what would be one of the biggest discoveries in physics. She ...

The great thing about pure liquid xenon? It’s so dense that enough of it will create an environment so isolated from the rest of the world it could capture signs of dark matter — the elusive material ...

Deep inside an old gold mine, in a vat of liquid xenon, a new hunt has begun for dark matter — the mysterious stuff that makes up about 85% of all matter in the universe. Nobody knows what exactly ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. After three years of construction, the world's most sensitive dark matter experiment is online, ...

The XENON1T water tank, which houses the detector, is shown next to a three-story building that houses supporting infrastructure. (Photo courtesy of the XENON Collaboration) Download Photo WEST ...

Researchers have measured a process that takes more than one trillion times the age of the universe to complete, using an instrument built to search for dark matter—the most elusive particle known to ...

The incredibly sensitive LUX dark-matter detector, buried under a mile of rock, has come up empty on its 20-month search for dark matter — further narrowing down the possible characteristics of the ...

An underground vat of liquid xenon in Italy may have just detected a new particle, born in the heart of the sun. If that's indeed what happened, it could upend laws of physics that have held fast for ...

The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment is an ambitious, hyperbolic project. An entire mile below the ground, in an abandoned gold mine that now serves as Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF), ...

Directly detecting dark matter would be one of the most important scientific discoveries of all time – but it's no easy feat to find something that's invisible and barely interacts with regular matter ...