Read article 'CAST experiment constrains solar axions'
CAST experiment constrains solar axions
The CERN Axion Solar Telescope has reported important new exclusion limits on coupling of axions to photons.
Read article 'CAST experiment constrains solar axions'
Read article 'Survey reveals edge of dark-matter halos'
Survey reveals edge of dark-matter halos
Results show that the density of dark matter in a halo does not gradually fall off with distance, as might be expected, but instead exhibits a sharp edge.
Read article 'Dark-matter surprise in early universe'
Dark-matter surprise in early universe
A surprising result at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Germany suggests that dark matter was less influential in the early universe than it is today.
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 '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.
