October marks Breast Cancer Awareness Month, an annual focus on prevention, early detection and advances in treatment. Breast ...

In their search for dark matter, scientists from the XENON Collaboration are using one of the world's most sensitive dark ...

The LUX-ZEPLIN detector is breaking new ground in the hunt for dark matter, setting unprecedented limits on WIMP particles.

Determining the nature of dark matter, the invisible substance that makes up most of the mass in our universe, is one of the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has, for the first time, measured the carbon-rich concoction that forms a moon-forming disk of ...

Heart cancer is a rare and serious condition, either primary or secondary, characterized by uncontrolled cell growth on or ...

Results from the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment, co-founded by UC Santa Barbara physicists, mark a major step in defining what dark matter can — and cannot — be ...

A recent study offers proof of feasibility for using cosmic radiation detectors to discover underground spaces. The detectors identify muons—particles created when cosmic radiation collides with Earth ...

Using muon detectors, the team produced detailed images of underground features, including tunnels and cisterns, based on how ...

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near Geneva, Switzerland, is the largest particle accelerator ever built and one of the most ...

The researchers recorded a small number of unexplained signals suspected to be lightweight dark matter. A cutting-edge ...