Dark matter

A massive galaxy far from Earth seems to be entirely devoid of dark matter, contrary to all accepted cosmological models

Scientists on Nov. 7 unveiled the first pictures taken by the European space telescope Euclid, a shimmering and stunning collection of galaxies too numerous to count.

The photos were revealed by the European Space Agency, four months after the telescope launched from Cape Canaveral.

A European space telescope blasted off Saturday on a quest to explore the mysterious and invisible realm known as the dark universe.

Europe's Euclid space telescope is scheduled to blast off Saturday on the first-ever mission aiming to shed light on two of the universe's greatest mysteries: dark energy and dark matter.

The launch is planned from Cape Canaveral in Florida at 11:12 am local time (1512 GMT) on a Falcon 9 rocket of the US company SpaceX.

In a former gold mine a mile underground, inside a titanium tank filled with a rare liquified gas, scientists have begun the search for what so far has been unfindable: Dark matter.

A Turkish physicist and his team is actively taking part in international experiments at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), a U.S.-based laboratory specializing in high-energy particle physics, he told Anadolu Agency on on Aug. 11. 

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Galaxies and dark matter go together like peanut butter and jelly. You typically don't find one without the other.

Takaaki Kajita of Japan and Arthur McDonald of Canada were awarded the Nobel Physics Prize on Oct. 6 for resolving a mystery about neutrinos, a fundamental but enigmatic particle.

British astronomers discovered nine unknown “dwarf galaxies”, satellites to our own. This discovery enriches our galactic neighborhood. This is the largest number of nearby galaxies that have ever been discovered en masse. This is also the first discovery of dwarf galaxies for a decade.