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'Dark universe' telescope Euclid faces some setbacks during commissioning
By Rahul Rao published
The observatory's star navigation system and sun protective devices have presented with anomalies.
Our entire galaxy is warping, and a gigantic blob of dark matter could be to blame
By Ben Turner published
An invisible halo of misaligned dark matter could explain the warps at the Milky Way's edges.
Hypothetical 'dark photons' could shed light on mysterious dark matter
By Robert Lea published
These massive particles could shed light on dark matter by revealing how this mysterious substance interacts with "normal" matter.
Hubble Space Telescope discovers 11-billion-year-old galaxy hidden in a quasar's glare
By Robert Lea published
Astronomers normally observe galaxies by observing light these objects emit, but some tricky galaxies require a different approach.
Astronomers weigh ancient galaxies' dark matter haloes for 1st time
By Robert Lea published
Astronomers have weighed the halos of dark matter that surround ancient galaxies with profound implications for our understanding of cosmic evolution.
Dark matter 'clumps' found by tapping into Einstein's general relativity theory
By Robert Lea published
Gravitationally lensed light from a distant quasar, powered by a supermassive black hole, could help constrain the properties of dark matter.
'Twisty' new theory of gravity says information can escape black holes after all
By Paul Sutter published
Einstein's theory of relativity say black holes are 'bald', but a new tweak to his research may give the mysterious objects their long-sought 'hair.'
Atomic clocks on Earth could reveal secrets about dark matter across the universe
By Robert Lea published
Using atomic clocks could help bring cosmology and astrophysics "down to Earth" by allowing scientists to investigate the mystery of dark matter in the lab.
We still don't know what dark matter is, but here's what it's not
By Monisha Ravisetti published
An experimental detector can now rule out dark matter particles down to about a fifth of a proton's mass.
A nearby supernova could reveal the secret lives of ghostly neutrinos. Here's how.
By Keith Cooper published
By modeling the neutrinos from a supernova as an exotic kind of fluid moving at nearly the speed of light, researchers are searching for signs of how neutrinos can interact with each other.
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