Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A University of Sheffield team reports signs that dark matter and neutrinos may interact, offering a new way to explain a cosmic ...

Scientists are a step closer to solving one of the universe’s biggest mysteries as new research finds evidence that two of its least understood components may be interacting, offering a rare window ...

Neutrinos are among the strangest known particles, so lightweight that trillions pass through your body every second without a trace. However, for all their invisibility, they carry a mystery that’s ...

Physicists are exploring thorium-229’s unique properties to create a nuclear clock so precise it could detect the faintest hints of dark matter. Recent measurement advances may allow scientists to ...

For nearly a century, scientists around the world have been searching for dark matter—an invisible substance believed to make up about 80% of the universe's mass and needed to explain a variety of ...

Possible interactions between dark matter and neutrinos may help explain a persistent mismatch in how cosmic structure evolved.

Australian researchers have played a central role in a landmark result from the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment in South Dakota—the world's most sensitive dark matter detector. Today, scientists working on ...

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — After years of searching, scientists at the Micro Booster Neutrino Experiment (MicroBooNE) have ruled out the possibility of the existence of a sterile neutrino, a ...

A quiet shift in the numbers behind the universe's growth is pushing scientists toward a bold possibility. Two of the cosmos' most elusive players, dark matter and neutrinos, may not be strangers ...