Dark Matter
Mapping Dark Matter 4.5 Billion Light-years Away
The Milky Way measures 100 to 120 thousand light-years across, a distance that defies imagination. But clusters of galaxies, which…
Missing Light Crisis: The Universe Seems a Little Too Dark
There are few moments more breathtaking than standing beneath a brilliant starry sky. Thousands of small specks of light mark…
Intriguing X-Ray Signal Might be Dark Matter Candidate
Could a strange X-ray signal coming from the Perseus galaxy cluster be a hint of the elusive dark matter in…
Could This Be The Signal Of Dark Matter? Unsure Scientists Checking This Out
Sometimes a strange signal comes from the dark and it takes a while to figure out what that signal means.…
Weekly Space Hangout – March 7, 2014: Cosmos Premiere & NASA Budget
Host: Fraser Cain Astrojournalists: David Dickinson, Matthew Francis, Casey Dreier, Jason Major, Brian Koberlein, Alan Boyle This week's stories: Alan…
Astronomers Map Dark Matter Throughout the Entire Universe
Warped visions of the cosmic microwave background - the earliest detectable light - allow astronomers to map the total amount…
An “Elemental” Explanation of Dark Matter
Atoms, string theory, dark matter, dark energy... there's an awful lot about the Universe that might make sense on paper…
New Video Map Shows Large-Scale Cosmic Structure out to 300 million Light Years
Researchers with the Cosmic Flows project have been working to map both visible and dark matter densities around our Milky…
NASA Experiment Seeks Signatures of Formation of First Stars and Galaxies
When did the first stars and galaxies form in the universe and how brightly did they burn? Scientists are looking…
Researchers May Have Finally Detected a Dark Matter Particle
Dark matter: it's invisible, it's elusive, it's controversial... and it's everywhere -- in the Universe, yes, but especially in the…