New research puts forward compelling new evidence that dark matter interacts with cosmic "ghost particles" called neutrinos.

The handheld particle detector CosmicWatch is roughly the size of a box of animal crackers. Every time a muon passes through ...

"WIMPs are still the leading candidate for dark matter, but billions of dollars of experiments have been done, only getting ...

You can't see, feel, hear, taste or smell them, but tiny particles from space are constantly raining down on us.

Spencer Axani, assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, is the inventor of CosmicWatch, a portable, ...

KAIPING, China (AP) — Underneath a granite hill in southern China, a massive detector is nearly complete that will sniff out the mysterious ghost particles lurking around us. The Jiangmen Underground ...

Scientists have uncovered an astonishing interstellar channel that connects our Solar System to the vast Galaxy beyond. This unique corridor in plasma allows cosmic particles to reach us more easily, ...

The Standard Model of our universe doesn’t match the evidence, in part because of dark energy, a ghostly force pushing the ...

A big detector to measure tiny particles The $300 million detector in Kaiping, China, took more than nine years to build. It is located 2,297 feet underground to protect it from pesky cosmic rays and ...

Particles raining down from space offer 3-D views inside swirling tropical storms. Muons created from cosmic rays that smash into Earth’s upper atmosphere have revealed the inner workings of cyclones ...

Earth is under constant bombardment by cosmic rays, showers of high-energy particles that blast our planet from all directions at near light speed. While this might sound like the precursor to a ...