Astronomers Measure the Density of Dark Matter in Galaxy Clusters
In a new study, astronomers detail their measurements of the density of dark matter in galaxy clusters, finding that the density of dark matter decreases…
In a new study, astronomers detail their measurements of the density of dark matter in galaxy clusters, finding that the density of dark matter decreases…
Astrium has begun development on a fully integrated payload module for ESA’s Euclid ‘Dark Universe’ Mission. The module will incorporate a 1.2 m-diameter telescope feeding…
Theoretical physicists from the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology detail a new mathematical description of how dark matter particles behave, which could help…
The below four-minute ScienceCast video explores the possibility that the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer onboard the International Space Station has detected signs of dark matter. In…
SuperCDMS researchers have for the first time observed a concrete hint of a weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP), the particle physicists believe to be behind…
The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS) collaboration recently presented its blind-analysis dark matter search results from data taken with silicon detectors during CDMS II operation…
AMS announced the first results in its search for dark matter, reporting the observation of an excess of positrons in the cosmic ray flux. Geneva…
Based on the first 15.5 months of all-sky observations, scientists have created the most detailed map ever made of the oldest light in the universe,…
Beneath a mountain, an experiment is about to begin that could prove the existence of some of the strangest particles known to science. Physicists are…
JPL has been selected by the European Space Agency to lead the U.S. science team for the Euclid mission, a space telescope designed to probe…
University of Oslo’s leading theorist in astroparticle physics, Are Raklev, has launched a model that explains what dark matter may consist of and how one…
A newly published study from astronomers at Ohio University shows that the core of Abell 520 does not appear to be over-dense in dark matter…
Located on a mountaintop in Chile, the newly-constructed Dark Energy Camera is the most powerful sky-mapping machine ever created and has captured and recorded its…
After a two-year study, a team of astronomers at the University of Portsmouth and LMU University Munich have concluded that the likelihood of the existence…
The Planck Satellite has observed a very unique emission of radio radiation from the center of the Milky Way, moving scientists closer than ever to…
Using a new unbiased technique to calculate dark matter, a new study from a team of astronomers suggests that there are large amounts of invisible…
A filament of dark matter, which works like the Universe’s backbone, and dictates where galaxies can form, was observed for the first time by astronomers…
Scientists are working on a directional dark matter detector that will use strands of DNA and gold in order to detect the elusive non-baryonic matter….