Recent results and prospects of the XENON dark matter experiment

 The XENON1T experiment was designed primarily to directly detect interactions of Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) dark matter from its recoil off a xenon nucleus. To reach high sensitivity for WIMP searches, an ultra-low background for electronic recoils was achieved, thus enabling searches for new physics within this regime. In this talk I will present the latest results from XENON1T, with a focus on the excess observed at keV-scale electronic-recoil energies from an as-yet unknown source. The experiment, located at Laboratori Nazionale del Gran Sasso, was recently upgraded from a 2-tonne xenon target (1-tonne fiducial mass) to XENONnT, which contains 6 tonnes of liquid xenon as target. I will show the current status of XENONnT during its commissioning phase and highlight its prospects for future searches.