A simple explanation of dark matter and antimatter, how they differ, how scientists study them, and why both are important to understanding the universe.

The hero is regular matter, which is everything we can see around us. Antimatter is the mirror-image explosive twin that ...

The Milky Way is glowing in ways it should not, and the usual suspects like stars, dust and black holes cannot fully account ...

An Antarctic experiment looking to detect dark matter in space led by University of Hawaii Manoa was launched on Dec. 15.

A scientific experiment aimed at detecting dark matter in space launched from Antarctica on December 15, with significant ...

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