Dark Matter

Space Station Detector Finds Extra Antimatter in Space, Maybe Dark Matter

The first results from the largest and most complex scientific instrument on board the International Space Station has provided tantalizing…

12 years ago

Milky Way Leftover Shell Stars Discovered In Galactic Halo

Like tantalizing tidbits stored in the vast recesses of one's refrigerator, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have evidence of…

12 years ago

Do We Really Need Dark Matter?

Hubble mosaic of massive galaxy cluster MACS J0717.5+3745, thought to be connected by a filament of dark matter. Credit: NASA, ESA,…

12 years ago

Dark Matter Halos May Contain Stars

The image on the left shows a portion of our sky, called the Boötes field, in infrared light, while the…

12 years ago

Hubble Studies Dark Matter Filament in 3-D

Hubble’s view of massive galaxy cluster MACS J0717.5+3745. The large field of view is a combination of 18 separate Hubble…

12 years ago

Astronomers Discover Milky Way’s Hot Halo

Artist's illustration of a hot gas halo enveloping the Milky Way and Magellanic Clouds (NASA/CXC/M.Weiss; NASA/CXC/Ohio State/A.Gupta et al.) Our…

12 years ago

Work Begins on the World’s Largest Cosmic Ray Observatory

Caption: Lake Baikal. Credit: SeaWiFS Project NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center and ORBIMAGE Construction has just begun at the Tunka Valley…

12 years ago

Dark Matter Filaments Bind Galaxies Together

A slim bridge of dark matter - just a hint of a larger cosmic skeleton - has been found binding…

12 years ago

Euclid and the Geometry of the Dark Universe

Euclid, an exciting new mission to map the geometry, distribution and evolution of dark energy and dark matter has just…

12 years ago

Could ‘Mirror Neutrons’ Account for Unobservable Dark Matter?

Could mirror universes or parallel worlds account for dark matter -- the ‘missing’ matter in the Universe? In what seems…

12 years ago