Is This the Moment? Scientists Detect a Signal That Might Be Dark Matter ...

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Nearly a century after astronomers first proposed dark matter to explain the strange motions of galaxies, scientists may finally be catching a glimpse of it. A University of Tokyo researcher analyzing ...

The blank horizontal bar is the galactic plane area, which was excluded from the analysis to avoid strong astrophysical ...

The AMS operates in space from the International Space Station. Its purpose is to study cosmic rays in search of dark matter and antimatter. Credit: NASA In May 2011 the shuttle Endeavour ferried the ...

In what could be a breakthrough that rewrites physics textbooks, scientists using NASA's Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope may have directly detected dark the invisible substance believed to comprise 85 ...

What we see in our universe only accounts for roughly five per cent of what’s out there. The remaining 95 per cent is invisible. But now, a researcher at the University of Tokyo says he's seen at ...

A team of astronomers analyzed observations by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope taken over a span of 18 years to measure the dynamic motions of stars within the Draco dwarf galaxy. The telescope's ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has made strides in unraveling the mysteries surrounding dark matter within the Draco dwarf galaxy, located about 250,000 light-years away. Dark matter, an invisible ...

Try mixing caramel into vanilla ice cream — you will always end up with globs and swirls of caramel. Scientists are finding that galaxies may distribute themselves in similar ways throughout the ...

NASA plans two Antarctic balloon launches to study extreme cosmic particles, using stable polar winds and continuous sunlight ...