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Astronomy

If You Can’t Find Dark Matter, Look First for a Dark Force

Physicists are rethinking how to use the Large Hadron Collider to search for dark matter.

February 8, 2017

Dark Matter Is Either Like Neptune or Like Vulcan

This isn’t the first time that scientists have wrestled with the unseen.

January 31, 2017

There Is Dust in the Universe, But I Have Never Seen It

A poet finds inspiration in cosmic darkness.

January 24, 2017

Music for the Birth of the Universe

This composer takes inspiration from scientific cosmology and quantum mechanics.

January 24, 2017

Dr. Chiara M. F. Mingarelli

Gravitational-wave Astrophysicist, Caltech and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory

January 5, 2017

On the Moon’s Far Side, Clues to a Cataclysm?

A mission to collect samples from the far side of the moon could answer questions about a barrage of asteroids nearly 4 billion years ago.

December 22, 2016

Of Rings, Geysers, and Plumes

This woman has the best job in the inner solar system.

December 16, 2016