As if searching for dark matter isn't difficult enough already, physicists may have detected another hurdle known as a ...

These “miniature trails of destruction,” as the researchers call them, are caused by high-energy particles bouncing off the nucleus inside a rock, which knocks that nucleus out of place. The resulting ...

Analyzing billion-year-old rocks, researchers at Virginia Tech hope to find traces of dark matter. The idea was first ...

As we gaze into the universe, we've discovered most galaxies have a supermassive black hole lurking near the center.

Fancy telescopes and massive particle accelerators aren’t the only tools that can be used to detect dark matter. Researchers ...

On a mountain in northern Chile, scientists are carefully assembling the intricate components of the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin ...

The current US Supreme Court has no fundamental understanding of a range of medical, engineering, technological, or ...

“We are extremely pleased to welcome Claudio Chamon to our college’s faculty,” said Lucy Flesch, the Fredrick L. Hovde Dean ...

A recent study has proposed a new mechanism for the formation of primordial black holes that could provide answers about dark matter.

A Virginia Tech-led team is hunting for dark matter — not with telescopes or particle colliders — but by scrutinizing billion ...

(Photo by Spencer Coppage for Virginia Tech) Huber, who is building a new lab to test dark matter theories, has been awarded several million dollars from the National Science Foundation and ...

These axions could form an explanation for the elusive dark matter that cosmologists search for -- and moreover, they might not be ... Oct. 31, 2024 — For Halloween, the European Southern ...