Dark Matter

Era of Space Shuttle Endeavour Ends with June 1 landing at the Kennedy Space Center

[/caption] KENNEDY SPACE CENTER - Space Shuttle Endeavour and her six man crew landed safely today at the Kennedy Space…

13 years ago

Australian Student Uncovers the Universe’s Missing Mass

[/caption] Not since the work of Fritz Zwicky has the astronomy world been so excited about the missing mass of…

13 years ago

AMS Now Attached to the Space Station, Ready to Observe the Invisible Universe

The long-awaited Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, a particle physics detector that could unlock mysteries about dark matter and other cosmic radiation,…

14 years ago

Astronomy Without A Telescope – SLoWPoKES

[/caption] The Sloan Low-mass Wide Pairs of Kinematically Equivalent Stars (SLoWPoKES) catalog was recently announced, containing 1,342 common proper motion…

14 years ago

President Obama to Attend Endeavour’s Last Launch on April 29

[/caption] President Barack Obama and the entire First Family apparently plan to attend the final launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour,…

14 years ago

Antigravity Could Replace Dark Energy as Cause of Universe’s Expansion

[/caption] Since the late 20th century, astronomers have been aware of data that suggest the universe is not only expanding,…

14 years ago

No Joy for Dark Matter Detector’s First 100 Days

[/caption] We’re still mostly in the dark about Dark Matter, and the highly anticipated results from the XENON100 detector has…

14 years ago

Cosmology 101: The End

[/caption] Welcome back to the third, and last, installment of Cosmology 101. So far, we've covered the history of the…

14 years ago

Perseus Cluster Thicker Around the Middle Than Thought

[/caption] The Japanese Suzaku X-ray telescope has just taken a close look at the Perseus galaxy cluster, and revealed it's…

14 years ago

Galaxy Size Matters … And This is Not a Rorschach Test

[/caption] When it comes to forming stars, the size of a galaxy does matter, according to research out today in…

14 years ago