To understand how the universe formed, astronomers have created AbacusSummit, more than 160 simulations of how gravity may have shaped the distribution of dark matter.…
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The Roman Space Telescope is a NASA observatory designed to unravel the secrets of dark energy and dark matter, search for and image exoplanets, and…
To get to SNOLAB’s cleanroom, where the SENSEI experiment is to be housed, a trip more than a mile underground inside a working mine, pictured…
Illustration showing gamma-rays from a neutron star. Credit: NASA Using Neutron Stars To Detect Dark Matter The search for dark matter may need a detector…
This deep Hubble Space Telescope image reveals the diffuse dwarf galaxy NGC2052-DF2, an unusual “see-through” galaxy. The giant cosmic cotton ball is so diffuse and…
The COSMOS-Webb survey will map 0.6 square degrees of the sky—about the area of three full Moons—using the James Webb Space Telescope’s Near Infrared Camera…
Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have linked together, or “entangled,” the mechanical motion and electronic properties of a tiny blue…
Dark matter simulation. Credit: Ralf Kaehler/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory For many years now, astronomers and physicists have been in a conflict. Is the mysterious dark…
This Hubble Space Telescope image offers a sampling of aging, red stars in the ultra-diffuse galaxy NGC 1052-DF2, or DF2. The galaxy continues to puzzle…
The presence of ionized gas around galaxies with moves with them leaves a trace in the microwave background radiation (left panel) which can be detected…
Artist’s conception of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: Pablo Carlos Budassi The spin of the Milky Way’s galactic bar, which is made up of billions…
UC Riverside dark matter research program targets assumptions about particle physics. As its name suggests, dark matter — material which makes up about 85% of…
The schematic setup of the next generation CDEX experiment in CJPL-II. Credit: ©Science China Press Numerous compelling evidences from astroparticle physics and cosmology indicate that…
Dark Matter Particle Explorer. Credit: DAMPE Collaboration Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) Collaboration directly observed a spectral softening of helium nuclei at about 34TeV for…
An international team of researchers has produced a map of the dark matter within the local universe, using a model to infer its location due…
Jack Manley (left) is a UD doctoral student and Swati Singh is an assistant professor in the College of Engineering’s Department of Electrical and Computer…
Hubble Space Telescope observation of galaxy cluster Abell 3827. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Massey This detailed image features Abell 3827, a galaxy cluster that…
The boxes show how filaments and superclusters of galaxies grow over time, from billions of years after the Big Bang to current structures. Credit: Modification…
This exoplanet, a gas giant called GJ 504b, is about 57 light-years away from Earth. Exoplanets like this may help researchers find and measure dark…
Astronomers have released a new all-sky map of the outermost region of our Milky Way galaxy. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/NSF/R.Hurt The highlight of the new chart is…