3+ day, 7+ hour ago   (625+ words) We assume the Universe looks broadly the same no matter where you are or which way you look. A study is throwing that assumption into doubt. When scientists say that the Universe is isotropic, it means that on the largest…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (962+ words) Astronomers have found an enormous proto-supercluster 5,000 times bigger than our Galaxy Astronomers have peered back into the early Universe to a time shortly after the Big Bang and discovered an enormous, gargantuan cosmic structure taking shape. Located in a region…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (256+ words) A sensitive question: why dark matter detectors have to live deep beneath mountains Ever noticed that lots of dark matter detectors tend to be deep, deep underground? On Earth’s surface, around 10,000 cosmic ray muons pass through every square metre around…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (338+ words) The dark matter hunt is testing the limits of known physics. What happens if it fails? One of the biggest mysteries in the Universe is that all the stars, galaxies, gas clouds and planets we can see – all the 'regular…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1668+ words) If dark matter is invisible and can't be detected, why are scientists spending so much time and money searching for it? Modern physics has a big problem. All the stars, galaxies, gas clouds and planets we can see account for…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (912+ words) A mile underground, the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment is hunting for dark matter Deep beneath the Black Hills of South Dakota in the US, locked inside a cavern nearly a mile underground, an extraordinary experiment is hunting for dark matter. And it…...