Dark Matter
The Case of the Missing Dark Matter
[/caption] A survey of the galactic region around our solar system by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) has turned up…
Finding Out What Dark Matter Is – And Isn’t
Astronomers using NASA's Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope have been looking for evidence of suspected types of dark matter particles within…
Distant Invisible Galaxy Could be Made Up Entirely of Dark Matter
[/caption] Astronomers can’t see it but they know it’s out there from the distortions caused by its gravity. That statement…
Astronomers Witness a Web of Dark Matter
[/caption] We can't see it, we can't feel it, we can't even interact with it... but dark matter may very…
Guest Post: The Cosmic Energy Inventory
[/caption] Now that the old year has drawn to a close, it's traditional to take stock. And why not think…
Video: Nobel Prize Winner Explains The Expanding Universe
In this video Saul Perlmutter, one of the three winners of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics, explains how dark…
Milky Way Arm Wrestles With Dark Matter
[/caption] For a good number of years, astronomers have hypothesized the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy has been loaded up with dark…
Alone In The Dark?
[/caption] Two years ago, Marla Geha, a Yale University astronomer, Joshua Simon from the Carnegie Institution of Washington, and their…
A Four Cluster Pile-Up
[/caption] Abell 2744, shown above in a composite of images from the Hubble Space Telescope, the ESO's Very Large Telescope…
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,…