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Dark Matter Mystery

Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are continuing their search for dark matter, the elusive substance that makes up about 85% of the universe's mass. While no direct detection of dark matter particles has been made yet, experiments at the LHC and other facilities are narrowing down the possibilities and exploring new theories about the nature of dark matter. Solving the mystery of dark matter is one of the biggest challenges in modern astrophysics.

HOT SHOT findings could save defense tech developers time and money

Hubble Views Final Stages of a Star’s Life

Exoplanets can't hide their secrets from innovative new instrument

Building a moon base is a huge task, but these tiny satellites will pave the way

For the first time, astronomers catch asteroid in the act of changing color

Deep Space Antenna 1

For the first time, astronomers catch asteroid in the act of changing color

Hints of a volcanically active exo-moon

Hints of a volcanically active exo-moon

Hints of a volcanically active exo-moon

Space Command set to open, will defend US interests in space

OSIRIS-REx's final four sample site candidates in 3-D

No-fly boys: new Russian space suit clashes with pee ritual

Satellite photos show burning Iran space center launch pad

Hints of a volcanically active exomoon

Hints of a volcanically active exomoon

By continuously watching the moon, we could detect interstellar meteorites

By continuously watching the moon, we could detect interstellar meteorites

Celebrating Spitzer's Sweet Sixteen

NASA invites students to name Mars 2020 rover

James Webb Space Telescope assembled for the first time

Telescope for NASA's WFIRST mission advances to new phase of development

Telescope for NASA's WFIRST mission advances to new phase of development

James Webb Space Telescope assembled for the first time

NASA's Mars helicopter attached to Mars 2020 rover

CERN simulating Jupiter

Busy older stars outpace stellar youngsters

Busy older stars outpace stellar youngsters

Busy older stars outpace stellar youngsters

Busy older stars outpace stellar youngsters

Busy older stars outpace stellar youngsters

Busy older stars outpace stellar youngsters, new study shows

Astronomers determine earth's fingerprint in hopes of finding habitable planets beyond the solar system

Earth's fingerprint hints at finding habitable planets beyond the solar system

Earth's fingerprint hints at finding habitable planets beyond the solar system

Earth's fingerprint hints at finding habitable planets beyond the solar system

Newly discovered giant planet slingshots around its star

ExoMars rover ready for environment testing

Europa: there may be life on Jupiter's moon and two new missions will pave the way for finding it

Newly discovered giant planet slingshots around its star

Gaia untangles the starry strings of the Milky Way

Newly discovered giant planet slingshots around its star

Wind mystery inside gas giant Saturn begins to unravel

Cluster and XMM-Newton pave the way for SMILE

Lifting the Space Launch System Core Stage Into Place

Astronomers detect an ultracompact X-ray binary using OGLE

Star laws: What happens if you commit a crime in space?

'Green peas' provide clues to the early days of the universe

Jupiter shows its true stripes

Astronomers find a golden glow from a distant stellar collision

Astronomers find a golden glow from a distant stellar collision

NASA dangles $7 billion carrot for next moon landing

Astronomers find a golden glow from a distant stellar collision

Astronomers find a golden glow from a distant stellar collision

Newly discovered giant planet slingshots around its star

Streaks in aurora found to map features in earth's radiation environment

Astronomers find a golden glow from a distant stellar collision

Satellite-based estimates of reduced deforestation in protected areas needed

The dark side of extrasolar planets share surprisingly similar temperatures

The dark side of extrasolar planets share surprisingly similar temperatures

Astronaut Andrew Morgan Performs His First Spacewalk

An exoplanet within arm's reach: The Earth

WISE J0720−0846 hosts a massive T dwarf, observations confirm

NASA activates Deep Space Atomic Clock

The dark sides of extrasolar planets share surprisingly similar temperatures

Video: The latest look at 'first light' from Chandra

Spacecraft carrying Russian humanoid robot docks at ISS

Mysterious cloud 'absorbers' seen to drive Venusian albedo, climate

Physicists mash quantum and gravity and find time, but not as we know it

Astrophysicists link brightening of pulsar wind nebula to pulsar spin-down rate transition

Mrk 1498 hosts a young and obscured AGN, study finds

Christine Darden: From Human Computer to Engineer

NASA's BITSE solar scope is ready for balloon flight over New Mexico

Image: Hubble captures dynamic dying star

Image: X-raying a galaxy's stellar remnants

Scientists shed new light on mystery origin of ultra-high-energy cosmic ray hotspot

Why we need to get back to Venus

International Space Station crew relocates Soyuz capsule

Docking aborted for Russia's first humanoid robot in space

Astronomer: 'Magic' nights make Hawaii best telescope site

NASA investigating first crime committed in space: report

What's Mars solar conjunction, and why does it matter?

Scientists explore outback as testbed for Mars

Study models new method to accelerate nanoparticles

Helping NASA spacecraft travel faster and farther with math

In a quantum future, which starship destroys the other?

Habitable type planets found around nearby small mass star

Hubble Captures Dynamic Dying Star

Q&A: Scientist models exoplanet's atmosphere

30 years ago: Voyager 2's historic Neptune flyby

Rolling Stones get a little piece of Mars to call their own

Mission to Jupiter's icy moon confirmed

Storms on Jupiter are disturbing the planet's colorful belts

Storms on Jupiter are disturbing the planet's colorful belts

Storms on Jupiter are disturbing the planet's colorful belts

Storms on Jupiter are disturbing the planet's colorful belts

Maximum mass of lightest neutrino revealed using astronomical big data

Maximum mass of lightest neutrino revealed using astronomical big data

Maximum mass of lightest neutrino revealed using astronomical big data

Maximum mass of lightest neutrino revealed using astronomical big data

Maximum mass of lightest neutrino revealed using astronomical big data

Maximum mass of lightest neutrino revealed using astronomical big data

Where are new stars born? NASA's Webb Telescope will investigate

Last of its kind rocket puts GPS satellite in orbit

Temperatures of 800 billion degrees in the cosmic kitchen

Temperatures of 800 billion degrees in the cosmic kitchen

Temperatures of 800 billion degrees in the cosmic kitchen

Astronomers investigate radio burst emission from the magnetar XTE J1810−197

Jupiter mission takes first images of destination from Earth

Earth is an exoplanet to aliens: This is what they'd see

India has it right: nations either aim for the moon or get left behind in the space economy

Wildfires in the Brazilian Rainforest Creating Cross Country Smoke

Salt deposits on Mars hold clues to sources of ancient water

Russia sends 'Fedor' its first humanoid robot into space

Spaceflight consistently affects the gut

Spaceflight consistently affects the gut

A View of the National Space Council

Spaceflight consistently affects the gut

Steam balloon to facilitate satellite launches

Spacewalking astronauts add parking spot to space station

Large cosmological simulation to run on Mira

Deployment test of Webb's secondary mirror

A step closer to solving the methane mystery on Mars

Deployment test of Webb's secondary mirror

MAXI J1621–501 is a low-mass X-ray binary, study finds

A planet without an atmosphere bolsters concerns about bodies orbiting stars smaller than the sun

Enabling longer space missions

Enabling longer space missions

Black hole holograms

Enabling longer space missions

Stardust in the Antarctic snow

Stardust in the Antarctic snow

Black hole holograms

Stardust in the Antarctic snow

Black hole holograms

Black hole holograms

Stardust in the Antarctic snow

Black hole holograms

Stardust in the Antarctic snow

Space station's data rate increase supports future exploration

Image: Luca installs BioRock

SpaceX Dragon Crew Emergency Evacuation Rehearsal

Physicists design an experiment to pin down the origin of the elements

A space cocktail of science, bubbles and sounds

Ancient Mars was warm with occasional rain, turning cold

Mission to Jupiter's icy moon confirmed

Rocky, Earth-sized exoplanet is missing an atmosphere

India's Moon probe enters lunar orbit

New planet discovered in orbit of young Milky Way star

A second planet in the Beta Pictoris system

Lab-based dark energy experiment narrows search options for elusive force

A second planet in the Beta Pictoris system

Lab-based dark energy experiment narrows search options for elusive force

Lab-based dark energy experiment narrows search options for elusive force

A second planet in the Beta Pictoris system

Lab-based dark energy experiment narrows search options for elusive force

How NASA is becoming more business friendly

Scientists complete LSST's digital sensor array

3D Printing and the Future of Aeronautics

Eight new repeating fast radio bursts detected

Robotic tool operations bring in-space refueling closer to reality

Video: Moving on Mars

Spotting merging galaxies

Scientists detect a black hole swallowing a neutron star

NASA picks Alabama's 'Rocket City' for lunar lander job

Best of both worlds: Asteroids and massive mergers

Best of both worlds: Asteroids and massive mergers

Space samples link NASA's Apollo 11 and Mars 2020

Best of both worlds: Asteroids and massive mergers

Image: Hubble's portrait of star's gaseous glow

The moon rock that turned out to be from Earth

Hubble’s Portrait of Star’s Gaseous Glow

NASA selects proposals to demonstrate smallSat technologies to study interplanetary space

Robotic toolkit added to NASA's Mars 2020 rover

Top NASA official gets look at next moon rocket

Moon glows brighter than sun in images from NASA's Fermi

Moon glows brighter than sun in images from NASA's Fermi

Moon glows brighter than sun in images from NASA's Fermi

Young Jupiter was smacked head-on by massive newborn planet

Young Jupiter was smacked head-on by massive newborn planet

Moon glows brighter than sun in images from NASA's Fermi

Conceptual design ready for PLATO telescope simulator

Total annihilation for supermassive stars

How astronomers chase new worlds in TESS data

NASA and SpaceX: Dragon Crew Extraction Rehearsal

A brief astronomical history of Saturn's amazing rings

Three new Beta Cephei stars detected

First DJ in space

Stellar evolution in real time detected in the old star T Ursae Minoris

Virgin Galactic unveiling mission control for space tourism

How many Earth-like planets are around sun-like stars?

How many Earth-like planets are around sun-like stars?

How many Earth-like planets are around sun-like stars?

Young Jupiter was smacked head-on by massive newborn planet

Automated observing network inaugurated at SOAR telescope

Studying How Arctic Wildfires Change the World

How many Earth-like planets are around sun-like stars?

Milky Way's black hole just flared, growing 75 times as bright for a few hours

Shedding light on black holes

NASA selects proposals to further study the fundamental nature of space

NASA descends on Icelandic lava field to prepare for Mars

James Webb Space Telescope could begin learning about TRAPPIST-1 atmospheres in a single year, study indicates

James Webb Space Telescope could begin learning about TRAPPIST-1 atmospheres in a year

Fluorescent glow may reveal hidden life in the cosmos

Fluorescent glow may reveal hidden life in the cosmos

Fluorescent glow may reveal hidden life in the cosmos

Fluorescent glow may reveal hidden life in the cosmos

Fluorescent glow may reveal hidden life in the cosmos

Fluorescent glow may reveal hidden life in the cosmos

Near-Earth asteroid 2006 QV89 not a threat for next century

Finding a cosmic fog within shattered intergalactic pancakes

Finding a cosmic fog within shattered intergalactic pancakes

Finding a cosmic fog within shattered intergalactic pancakes

Finding a cosmic fog within shattered intergalactic pancakes

Finding a cosmic fog within shattered intergalactic pancakes

Finding a cosmic fog within shattered intergalactic pancakes

A Full Moon Over the Pacific

Second baby planet found using pioneering technique

NASA's Spitzer spies a perfectly sideways galaxy

Solar physics with the Square Kilometre Array

One year, two trips around sun for NASA's Parker Solar Probe

Image: Small object spotted orbiting 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

NASA mission selects final four site candidates for asteroid sample return

Critical observation made on Maunakea during first night of return to operations

New millisecond pulsar discovered

Glitch in neutron star reveals its hidden secrets

A new timeline of Earth's cataclysmic past

A new timeline of Earth's cataclysmic past

A new timeline of Earth's cataclysmic past

One Year of NASA's Parker Solar Probe

Glitch in neutron star reveals its hidden secrets

Mars: Cause of methane spikes still unknown

Astrophysicists measure key cosmic step in formation of early stars

Modeling a core collapse supernova

Dense gas detected in intercore bridges in the S235 star-forming region

Amid protest, Hawaii astronomers lose observation time

Virtual 'universe machine' sheds light on galaxy evolution

Virtual 'universe machine' sheds light on galaxy evolution

Virtual 'universe machine' sheds light on galaxy evolution

Virtual 'universe machine' sheds light on galaxy evolution

Virtual 'universe machine' sheds light on galaxy evolution

Virtual 'universe machine' sheds light on galaxy evolution

Virtual 'universe machine' sheds light on galaxy evolution

NASA's MMS finds first interplanetary shock

NASA's MMS finds first interplanetary shock

NASA's MMS finds first interplanetary shock

NASA's MMS finds first interplanetary shock

Where in the universe can you find a black hole nursery?

Where in the universe can you find a black hole nursery?

Where in the universe can you find a black hole nursery?

Where in the universe can you find a black hole nursery?

Where in the universe can you find a black hole nursery?

Where in the universe can you find a black hole nursery?

Asteroid's features to be named after mythical birds

Tardigrades: We're now polluting the moon with near indestructible little creatures

Hubble Catches 2 Galaxies at Play

Hubble's new portrait of Jupiter

Hubble's new portrait of Jupiter

Evidence found for cloaked black hole in early universe

Hubble showcases new portrait of Jupiter

NASA's MMS finds first interplanetary shock

Dark matter may be older than the Big Bang

Dark matter may be older than the Big Bang

Dark matter may be older than the Big Bang

Dark matter may be older than the Big Bang

Hubble Spots Jupiter’s Great Red Spot

Dark matter may be older than the Big Bang

Dark matter may be older than the Big Bang

The end of the world: A history of how a silent cosmos led humans to fear the worst

Two planets orbiting Teegarden's star described as most earthlike found yet

In search of signals from the early universe

MEDLI2 installation on Mars 2020 aeroshell begins