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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...