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Dark matter

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Physics

The antimatter factory about to solve the universe’s greatest mystery

Why is there something rather than nothing? We’re finally making enough antimatter to extract an answer – and it might reveal the dark side of the universe too

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Space

Figuring out what the Milky Way looks like is akin to a murder mystery

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Physics

What is reality? Why we still don’t understand the world’s true nature

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Physics

Are dark matter and dark energy related in anything apart from name?

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Melissa Uchida
Space

Why neutrinos could answer some of the biggest questions in the cosmos

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Chamkaur Ghag
Space

The hunt for dark matter: Solving the universe’s big questions

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Michele Bannister
Space

The inside story on ‘Oumuamua and other interstellar worlds

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‘I like a challenge’: CERN physicist on the draw of weird antimatter

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Physics

Why dark matter’s no-show could mean a big bang rethink

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Physics

Einstein killed the aether. Now the idea is back to save relativity

The luminiferous aether has become a byword for failed ideas. Now it is being revived to explain dark matter and dark energy, and potentially unify physics

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Space

Weird galaxies suggest our best understanding of the cosmos is wrong

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Space

Strange stars that go supernova may be dimming because of dark matter

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Dark energy

Physics

Dark matter can’t be seen, so this gallery is making it sing

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