An international team involving Northwestern University​ announced Tuesday that it has reached a major milestone in its quest ...

An international collaboration, including Northwestern University, has reached a critical milestone in the search for dark matter, the mysterious ...

Scientists studying a mysterious effect called cosmic birefringence—a subtle twist in the polarization of the universe’s oldest light—have developed a new way to reduce uncertainty in how it’s ...

Fusion power has long been sold as the technology that could light our cities with the same process that powers the stars. Now a new line of research suggests those same reactors might also be ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An Antarctic experiment looking to detect dark matter in space led by University of Hawaii Manoa was launched on Dec. 15. A device ...

Researchers, students and science-lovers across the world now have access to the design of the globally significant SABRE South dark matter experiment in the lead up to its installation in the Stawell ...

Dark matter is a mysterious type of matter that does not emit, absorb, or reflect light, yet is predicted to account for most of the universe's mass. While physicists have gathered extensive indirect ...

Dark matter is thought to outnumber regular matter by a factor of five to one – so why can’t we find the stuff? A new study proposes looking for it from space, using a satellite containing a ...

Have you ever stood by the sea and been overwhelmed by its vastness, by how quickly it could roll in and swallow you? Evidence suggests that we are suspended in a cosmic sea of dark matter, a ...

The GAPS experiment, right, prepares to launch from Antarctica. The device will help search for rare cosmic antimatter. The project builds on years of preparation, the release said, including ...