Dark matter NASA
The solar system might be a lot hairier than we thought. A new study publishing this week in the Astrophysical Journal by Gary Prézeau…
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Gravity and dark matter
People do not like Stacey McGaugh s ideas of dark matter. In fact, when I talked to the astronomy researcher a couple of years ago…
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Invisible matter
A few years ago, this blog looked at some work examining the likely effect of dark matter on the human body. The thinking was that…
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Anti-Dark matter
From: Damian The short answer is that we re not sure - scientists have not yet discovered what dark matter really is, and so we can…
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Dark matter explained
Astronomers know more about what dark matter is not than what it actually is. Credit: Karl Tate, SPACE.com Infographics Artist Most…
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Matter made
Atoms are the basic building blocks of matter and bind together to make elements. Elements are a substance that can only have one type…
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Galactic dark matter
Last week (November 18, 2015), Caltech announced a new and surprising measurement for the mass of the small, nearby galaxy Triangulum…
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Black matter Theory
For everything we know about the Universe, such as the existence of black holes and dark matter, there are many more things that we…
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Define matter in science
Matter is everything around you. Atoms and molecules are all composed of matter. Matter is anything that has mass and takes up space…
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Dark matter percentage
Scientists have struggled for decades to identify the constituent particles of dark matter, but they’ve had little to show for all…
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Theory of dark matter
This 3D map illustrates the large-scale distribution of dark matter, reconstructed from measurements of weak gravitational lensing…
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Properties of dark matter
If you re a researcher at Cambridge University s Institute of Astronomy in England, the answer is: Use painstaking calculations and…
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