Students from the Alexander Dawson School in Boulder, Colorado explain the workings of a "dark detector" coated with the one of the world's darkest materials, a forest of carbon nanotubes that reflect almost no light across the visible...

The Large Underground Xenon Detector is a two-phase liquid xenon detector designed to pick up dark matter particles. The Large Underground Xenon detector, or LUX, is located about a mile underground. Its outer tank is filled with...

LISA Pathfinder, a mission led by the European Space Agency (ESA) with contributions from NASA, has successfully tested a key technology needed to build a space-based observatory for detecting gravitational waves....

"Uses of Nuclear Radiation What have the Hulk and Spiderman got in common? They both gained their super powers because of radiation. Well, in films and comics at least. In real life, radiation has never given anyone super powers. But...

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What have the Hulk and Spiderman got in common? They both gained their super powers because of radiation. Well, in films and comics at least. In real life, radiation has never given anyone super powers. But when used carefully radiation...

Dark matter has so far foiled most means of detection, but researchers are continuing to pursue its mysteries. They're using the most sensitive detector yet, called XENON100, to try to glimpse the particles. See how it works in this...

Exploring the mysteries of dark energy and black holes. Identifying exoplanets. Capturing the origins of galaxies. Just some of what's happening at ground-based observatories -- windows on the universe that allow researchers to gaze...