Dark Matter
Companion Dwarf Galaxy Almost Invisible
A team of astronomers has discovered the least luminous, most dark matter-filled galaxy known to exist. The Segue 1 galaxy…
Dark Matter Halos? How About Disks, Too
[/caption] Scientists are trying to understand the invisible and hypothetical 'dark matter' – the stuff that we know exists by…
Pushing the Polite Boundaries of Science About Dark Matter
[/caption] Rumors are spinning faster than a neutron star about the possibility that a European satellite mission called PAMELA may…
Minimum Mass for Galaxies Provides Insight on Dark Matter
[/caption] More news on dark matter this week: By analyzing light from dwarf galaxies that orbit the Milky Way, scientists…
Dark Matter is Missing From Cosmic Voids
[/caption] Cosmic voids really are devoid of matter. Astronomers have found that even the pervasive 'dark matter' which accounts for…
Large Hadron Collider Could Generate Dark Matter
One of the biggest questions that occupy particle physicists and cosmologists alike is: what is dark matter? We know that…
Dark Matter is Denser in the Solar System
Dark matter was theorized to exist relatively recently, and we've come a long way in understanding what makes up a…
Primordial Stars Frozen Indefinitely by Dark Matter
It is thought that primordial or "Population III" stars were born in dense clouds of dark matter, 100 million years…
Could Dark Matter be the Root Cause of Flyby Anomalies?
When space probes Galileo, Rosetta, NEAR and Cassini carried out Earth flyby manoeuvre, scientists measured a bizarre and unpredictable jumps…
Digging for Dark Matter: The Large Underground Xenon (LUX) Detector
How do you catch a WIMP? No, I'm not talking about bullying the weakest kid in class, I'm talking about…