Read article 'Euclid to pinpoint nature of dark energy'
Euclid to pinpoint nature of dark energy
Due for launch in 2020, ESA’s Euclid probe will track galaxies and large areas of sky to find the cause of the cosmic acceleration.
Read article 'Euclid to pinpoint nature of dark energy'
Read article 'How dark matter became a particle'
How dark matter became a particle
Astronomers have long contemplated the possibility that there may be forms of matter in the universe that are imperceptible, either because they are too far away, too dim or intrinsically invisible. L...
Read article 'Doubting darkness'
Doubting darkness
An interview with Erik Verlinde, who argues that dark matter is an illusion caused by an incomplete understanding of gravity.
Read article 'Milestone for US dark-matter detector'
Milestone for US dark-matter detector
The US Department of Energy has formally approved a key construction milestone for the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment.
Read article 'BaBar casts further doubt on dark photons'
BaBar casts further doubt on dark photons
Dark photons, are hypothetical low-mass spin-1 particles that couple to dark matter but have vanishing couplings with normal matter. Such a boson, which may be associated with a U(1) gauge symmetry in...
Read article 'Funding injection for SNOLAB'
Funding injection for SNOLAB
The SNOLAB laboratory in Ontario, Canada, has received a grant of $28.6m to help secure its next three years of operations. The facility is one of 17 research facilities to receive support through Can...
Read article 'WIMP no-show in gamma-ray background'
WIMP no-show in gamma-ray background
A possible additional contribution from WIMP annihilation could not be identified, using NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.
Read article 'Testing WIMPs to the limit'
Testing WIMPs to the limit
Dark matter is one of the greatest mysteries of our cosmos. More than 80 years after its postulation in modern form by the Swiss–American astronomer Fritz Zwicky, the existence of a new unseen form ...
Read article 'Linking waves to particles'
Linking waves to particles
Gravitational waves could also shed light on the microscopic world.
Read article 'What is AMS telling us?'
What is AMS telling us?
The latest cosmic-ray data from AMS have implications for particle-physics models of dark matter and other novel phenomena, says John Ellis.
