These “miniature trails of destruction,” as the researchers call them, are caused by high-energy particles bouncing off the ...

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

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

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

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

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

(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 ...

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

1. The ______-____ weathering cycle happens in sloped terrains when water seeps into porous rocks, and repeatedly solidifies ...

The search for dark matter includes expertise in radio frequency signal detection, quantum sensing, and high-energy physics ...

“We’re looking at matter that’s pushed to its absolute limits,” Broodo said. “Once you figure that out, you have potentially ...

With advancements in imaging technology, the first successful dark matter detector might turn out to be an ancient rock. The visible universe — every potato, gas giant, steamy romance novel, black ...