Dark matter: our method for catching ghostly haloes could help unveil what it’s made of
A new method suggests we should aim to detect dark matter haloes by tracing galactic gas.
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Dark energy may have once been ‘springier’ than it is today − DESI cosmologists explain what their collaboration’s new measurement says about the universe’s history
Scientists have conflicting theories on why the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate. New measurements from a massive collaboration complicate these ideas.
New look at ‘Einstein rings’ around distant galaxies just got us closer to solving the dark matter debate
For decades physicists have argued over the nature of the elusive dark matter that pervades the Universe. A clever new study uses gravitational lensing to bring new evidence to the debate.
New chatter on dark matter
Dark matter has worked its way back into the news in the last few days with the completion of a detection experiment in a tunnel deep under the Italian Alps. Researchers from Columbia University used a…
US Moon landing marks new active phase of lunar science, with commercial launches of landers that will study solar wind and peer into the universe’s dark ages
Projects under NASA’s CLPS program – including the Odysseus lander that made it to the lunar surface – will probe unexplored questions about the universe’s formation.
Arrakihs: the tiny satellite aiming to reveal what dark matter is made of
By spotting and counting tiny galaxies, we can work out how much dark matter is hiding in the cosmos.
Nobel Prize in Physics for two breakthroughs: Evidence for the Big Bang and a way to find exoplanets
Scientists who discovered planets in far off stellar systems and the fundamentals of the Big Bang Theory have earned the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Dark matter may not actually exist – and our alternative theory can be put to the test
New research suggests we may be able to forget about dark matter if we tweak the laws of gravity according to imaginary bubbles in space.
Dark matter experiment finds nothing, makes news
A US team with a highly sensitive dark matter detector has just finished its first run. It has found nothing, and that is still big news. Physicists can explain accurately the behaviour of what makes matter…
Euclid space mission is set for launch – here’s how it will test alternative theories of gravity
The Euclid mission is preparing to launch on July 1.
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