Matter

Radical Marxist teachers are celebrating Black Lives Matter at School’s (BLM at School) “Week of Action” February 6-10 in thousands of K-12 government schools. The national BLM at School movement spends the first week of February –…

Transgender rights activists occupied the Oklahoma Capitol building Monday to protest Republican-led proposed legislation that would protect minor children and teens from life-altering hormone drugs and surgeries, the consequences of…

The first 3D map of hundreds of galaxies in the local universe is poised to increase our understanding of nearby galaxies and galactic clusters, showing how they form and change over time.Covering three-quarters of the sky, the map…

Months before Edwin Hubble finally published his epoch-making revelation about Andromeda, staggering the world with the fact that the universe extends beyond our Milky Way galaxy, a child was born under the star-salted skies of…

Even though it’s impossible to see it, dark matter fills the universe. And now, it seems increasingly likely it always has. An international team from Japan used the Subaru Telescope at the controversial Mauna Kea Observatories complex…

Ask astronomers about dark matter and one of the things they talk about is that this invisible, mysterious “stuff” permeates the universe. In particular, it exists in halos surrounding most galaxies. The mass of the halo exerts a strong…

You may not be a fan of dark matter, the hypothetical particle that makes up the bulk of the mass in the universe. And it's true that the dark matter hypothesis has its shortcomings — and, of course, we haven't found any dark matter…

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This view looks up into the LZ Outer Detector, which is used to veto radioactivity that can mimic a dark matter signal. Matthew Kapust / Sanford Underground Research Facility The first run of the most…

Astronomers are a step closer to revealing the properties of dark matter enveloping our Milky Way galaxy, thanks to a new map of 12 streams of stars orbiting within our galactic halo.…