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

The CosmicWatch device costs only $100 to make, making it accessible for both high school students and spacecraft operators.

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, ...

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

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 ...

In a groundbreaking discovery that has sent shockwaves through the astrophysics community, scientists have detected the highest-energy neutrino ever recorded—a particle that travels nearly at the ...

ISRO’s Cosmic Dust Experiment detects interplanetary particles in orbit, revealing hidden cosmic traffic, advancing India’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) used the first homegrown cosmic dust detector, the Dust EXperiment (DEX), to ...