For more than a century, schoolbook physics has divided matter into neat categories like solid, liquid, gas, and plasma. A ...

What is the nature of dark matter? A new experiment led by Columbia University physics professors aims to find out.

When two black holes merge or two neutron stars collide, gravitational waves can be generated. They spread at the speed of ...

Dark matter is a keystone assumption in the current understanding of the Universe. Yet, the elemental identity of dark matter is not known, and its future discovery remains a primary goal in the ...

Does the universe notice that we're paying attention to a quantum experiment? The answer goes against everything we thought ...

New research shows how disruptions to binary star systems could be the key to detecting space's most confounding substance — dark matter. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Prof. Ralf Schützhold at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) has devised an experiment that allows for not only the ...

The neutrino “fog” is beginning to materialize. Lightweight subatomic particles called neutrinos have begun elbowing their way into the data of experiments not designed to spot them. Two experiments, ...

Long tubes, strong magnets, and bright lasers. Is that all it takes to entice the shyest particles in the universe to reveal themselves? Physicists working on the ALPS II experiment certainly hope so, ...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- Gravitational Waves, ripples in space-time predicted by Einstein almost a century ago, were detected for the first time in 2015. A new study led by Yanou Cui, an associate ...

Dark matter could consist of particles so ultralight, they behave more like waves. Although the motions of galaxies provide evidence that dark matter exists, scientists have yet to directly detect the ...