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Universe’s missing half: What is antimatter and why it matters
August 01, 2025 4:24 pm
The Big Bang made matter and antimatter in equal measure, so where did all the antimatter go? This cosmic imbalance may hold the key to why anything exists at all.
Dark matter mystery: Why there is no light yet after decades of search
July 08, 2025 1:59 pm
Despite decades of searching, scientists still haven’t found the elusive substance that holds galaxies together: dark matter. Making up roughly 27% of the universe, it exerts gravity but doesn’t emit or absorb light.
Knowledge nugget of the day: Ghost particles - Neutrinos
January 10, 2025 11:55 am
The Cubic Kilometre Neutrino Telescope or KM3NeT is deployed under the Mediterranean Sea to detect high-energy neutrinos, also known as ghost particles. But why are neutrinos called ghost particles? Also, in Beyond the Nugget, learn about dark matter.
Watch this space: Gaganyaan tests, Martian organic molecules and electron rains on Mercury
July 24, 2023 8:45 am
Watch this Space brings together the biggest space-related developments that happened over the previous week. This edition speaks of Apollo 11, Gaganyaan, X-ray auroras on Mars and how a galaxy with no dark matter could change how we understand the universe.
A massive galaxy with little to no dark matter is puzzling scientists
July 21, 2023 2:30 pm
A massive galaxy that behaves like it has next to no dark matter within it could challenge the current understanding of how the universe works.
Dark matter: An invisible glue that may not even exist
August 11, 2022 7:43 pm
There's something in the universe that seems to hold everything together, a dark matter like glue. We can't see it, and yet it's got to be out there, right?
New research on oldest studied dark matter could break standard cosmological model
August 02, 2022 3:56 pm
A collaborative study has observed the composition of dark matter as it existed 12 billion years ago;
New study gives evidence for dark-matter free galaxies
December 16, 2021 10:47 am
The researchers show that there is no trace of dark matter in the galaxy AGC 114905, located about 250 million light-years away.
A science teacher explains: Why dark matter matters
July 05, 2021 7:23 pm
Is dark matter some exotic particle yet to be discovered or simply a property of gravitational force, which we have not been able to comprehend? We don’t know.
Dark matter exists, confirms study
May 02, 2019 1:21 pm
Dark matter is one of the greatest enigmas of astrophysics and cosmology, and is thought to account for 90 per cent of the matter in the universe.
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