Dark Matter
A New Survey of the Sky Contains Over One Billion Galaxies
What contains a petabyte of data on more than a billion galaxies in one of the most extensive sky maps?…
A Galaxy has Been Found that’s Almost Entirely Dark Matter
Astronomers have discovered a galaxy with very little or no stellar mass. Galaxies like these are called 'dark galaxies.' It…
New Measurements of Galaxy Rotation Lean Towards Modified Gravity as an Explanation for Dark Matter
Although dark matter is a central part of the standard cosmological model, it's not without its issues. There continue to…
Anti-Helium Generated in the Large Hadron Collider can Help in the Search for Dark Matter
Researchers from CERN's ALICE Collaboration have come up with a new way to search for Dark Matter: look for anti-helium-3…
If Dark Matter is Made of Axions, This Could be the Detector That Finds Them
As we've noted in plenty of other articles, science also moves forward by constraints. Understanding the limits of a physical…
Want to Learn More About Dark Matter? Send an Atomic Clock Close to the Sun
If dark matter exists in our solar system, atomic clock spacecraft might reveal its presence.
In a New Hubble Image, Dark Matter Anchors the Giant Galaxy Cluster Abell 611
Dark matter. It's secret. It's dark because it doesn't give off any light. We can't see it, taste it, touch…
Dwarf Galaxies Found Without Influence From Dark Matter
Ask astronomers about dark matter and one of the things they talk about is that this invisible, mysterious "stuff" permeates…
Astronomers Measure the Signal of Dark Matter From 12 Billion Years ago
The most distant measure of dark matter suggests the universe might have behaved differently in the past.
The World’s Most Sensitive Dark Matter Detector has Come Online
Individual contributors have become less and less prominent in scientific fields as the discipline itself has matured. Some individuals still…