An international team behind the LZ detector observed a single high‑energy event in June 2023 that has a 0.5% chance of being background noise, sparking cautious optimism about a possible dark‑matter interaction.
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The LUX‑ZEPLIN collaboration reports a lone, unexplained particle event in its underground xenon detector that matches predictions for a dark‑matter interaction, though it falls short of a confirmed discovery.
NASA lifted off the $4.3 b Roman Space Telescope on a Falcon Heavy, beginning a three‑month trek to Lagrange Point 2 to map billions of stars, probe dark energy and hunt thousands of new exoplanets.
Scientists at the Sanford Underground Research Facility recorded a single, unexplained particle interaction deep underground, a result that could represent the first hint of dark matter.
New research has not ruled out self-annihilating dark matter as the cause of a mysterious gamma-ray glow from the Milky Way's center, known as the Galactic Center Excess.
A new study proposes a self-interacting form of dark matter that could explain observed cosmic phenomena like scarred stellar streams, gravitational lenses, and unusual star clusters.