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Astronomy Cast Ep. 368: Searching for the Aether Wind: the Michelson–Morley Experiment
Waves move through a medium, like water or air. So it seemed logical to search for a medium that light…
Where’s All The Antimatter?
One of the biggest mysteries in the Universe is the fact there there's matter, and not antimatter. Where did it…
NASA’s Particle-Hunting ISS-CREAM Will Be Anything But Vanilla
Balloon-based research on cosmic particles that began over a century ago will get a big boost next year -- all…
Watch a Million Particles Collide
What happens when you give 1,000,000 particles their own gravity and spring repulsion and send them out to play? Watch…
Saturn’s Fluctuating F Ring
Bright clumps of material spotted within Saturn's ropy F ring (NASA/JPL/SSI) Released today, this image acquired by NASA's Cassini spacecraft…
A Rare Type of Solar Storm Spotted by Satellite
[/caption] When a moderate-sized M-class flare erupted from the Sun on May 17, it sent out a barrage of high-energy…
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…