Last Updated: Thursday, December 27, 2012, 13:33
Scientists have solved the puzzle of the universe being dominated by matter rather than its close relative anti-matter.
Last Updated: Wednesday, December 19, 2012, 15:45
Physicists believe it makes up about 23 percent of the mass-energy content of the universe, but what is dark matter is still a mystery.
Last Updated: Thursday, October 25, 2012, 19:20
Small number of stars that were kicked to the edges of space during violent collisions and mergers of galaxies may be the cause of the infrared light "halos" across the sky, astronomers suggest.
Last Updated: Saturday, October 6, 2012, 14:17
The distance from the solar system to the galactic center is approximately 26,100 light-years, and the galactic rotation velocity in the solar system (V0) is approximately 240 km/s.
Last Updated: Wednesday, September 5, 2012, 12:29
With the latest observations from the Planck satellite, researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute, among others, may be closer than ever to a solution to the origin of the mysterious dark matter.
Last Updated: Tuesday, August 14, 2012, 17:47
Gamma-ray photons seen emanating from the center of the Milky Way galaxy could support the theory that dark matter exists at the center of galaxies, according to UC Irvine astrophysicists.
Last Updated: Saturday, August 11, 2012, 16:25
Scientists have claimed that the Sun is surrounded by dark matter, a phenomenon first proposed in the 1930s by a Swiss astronomer.
Last Updated: Saturday, July 14, 2012, 12:27
Researchers are set to start work on finding the dark matter in an underground facility in an old gold mine in South Dakota`s Black Hills.
Last Updated: Tuesday, July 10, 2012, 11:08
Scientists have announced a discovery that confirms a key prediction in the prevailing theory of how the universe’s current web-like structure evolved.
Last Updated: Thursday, July 5, 2012, 14:20
Astrophysicists have for the first time detected the skeleton of dark matter that undergirds the cosmic web of matter in the universe.
Last Updated: Thursday, April 19, 2012, 15:26
The most accurate study till date of the motions of stars in the Milky Way has not found any evidence for dark matter in a large volume around the Sun.
Last Updated: Wednesday, April 11, 2012, 12:26
Researchers have shed light on how ancient sound waves sculpted the cosmos, thus revealing the most accurate measurements ever made of the large-scale structure of the universe between five to seven billion years ago.
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