Do you know which are the most abundant particles in the universe? It is neutrinos — small, chargeless, and nearly massless subatomic particles that either don’t interact with matter at all or ...

Photomultiplier tubes from the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in South Dakota. The LZ experiment is designed to detect dark matter particles from flashes of light ...

Far beneath the Black Hills of South Dakota, a tank of liquid xenon is quietly recording some of the faintest signals in the universe. In that deep, quiet space, researchers have pushed their ...

Physicists like me don’t fully understand what makes up about 83 percent of the matter of the universe — something we call “dark matter.” But with a tank full of xenon buried nearly a mile under South ...

Determining the nature of dark matter, the invisible substance that makes up most of the mass in our universe, is one of the greatest puzzles in physics. New results from the world’s most sensitive ...

Deep beneath South Dakota, scientists are hunting the unseen. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. This article was originally ...

Physicists like me don’t fully understand what makes up about 83% of the matter of the universe — something we call “dark matter.” But with a tank full of xenon buried nearly a mile under South Dakota ...