INDIRECT SEARCHES FOR DARK MATTER IN SPACE: STATUS, RESULTS AND PERSPECTIVES FROM RECENT AND FUTURE EXPERIMENTS

The rarefied components of the cosmic-ray flux impinging upon the Earth have been a fertile ground to search for particle physics signatures for the ubiquitous dark matter. Thus, in the last two decades, a number of balloon and satellite experiments have undertaken the extremely challenging task of measuring the cosmic positron, antiproton, electron and gamma-ray fluxes. Any dark matterinduced enhancements of these signals are likely to be subtle effects requiring a detailed understanding of instrumental response as well as more mundane astrophysical sources and galactic propagation effects. We review the status of recent, ongoing and future efforts at teasing out a dark matter signal from the antimatter and electromagnetic cosmic fluxes.