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Gamma-Ray Halo Signal Revives Dark Matter Hunt

Has the universe’s most elusive substance finally betrayed its presence? A new analysis of fifteen years of data from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has turned up a faint, spherical glow of ...
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PLANETS Units Have Landed – Free NASA-Funded Out-of-School Time Resources

The NASA Science Activation program’s PLANETS (Planetary Learning that Advances the Nexus of Engineering, Technology, and ...

Dark Matter May Have Been Seen for the First Time in NASA Gamma-Ray Data

NASA’s Fermi telescope has detected a 20-GeV gamma-ray halo around the Milky Way’s center that may match dark-matter annihilation.

Scientists have searched for dark matter for decades. One thinks he may have caught a glimpse.

Research published Tuesday by a Japanese astrophysicist says gamma rays may have been generated by the collision of dark ...
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Have We Finally "Seen" Dark Matter? Galactic Gamma-Ray Halo May Be First Direct Evidence Of Universe’s Invisible "Glue"

A halo of gamma-rays detected by the Fermi Space Telescope matches what would be expected if particles with masses around 500 ...
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A 15 Year Study May Have Just Captured the First Glimpse of Dark Matter

Everything you see around you—your phone, your cat, the Earth, the stars—makes up just 15% of the mass in the universe. The ...