The Vera Rubin Observatory is about to completely transform astronomy todayheadline
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is about to open a new eye on the universeOlivier Bonin/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory On ...
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NASA’s Roman to Peer Into Cosmic ‘Lenses’ to Better Define Dark Matter
A funky effect Einstein predicted, known as gravitational lensing — when a foreground galaxy magnifies more distant galaxies behind it ...
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Astronomers find a rare ‘dark galaxy’ within our Local Group
Back to Article List The rotating disk galaxy, mostly made up of dark matter, was discovered within a larger cloud ...
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Dark Energy Debunked By “Lumpy” Universe Expansion todayheadline
The enigmatic idea of dark energy has consistently been referenced to explain the universe’s expansion, but new research may upend ...
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How Vera C. Rubin Revolutionized Dark Matter todayheadline
In 2016, astronomer Vera C. Rubin died at the age of 88. Three years later, Congress designated the NSF-DOE Vera ...
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Does dark matter affect our solar system?
Back to Article List From the December 2024 issue Dark matter does pervade the solar system like an invisible fog. ...
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