A new dark matter detector under a mountain in Jeongseon, South Korea, is about to be turned on. The team is trying to rule out – or perhaps reproduce – the strange results from an earlier detector in Italy. As far as astronomers who study the observable universe can tell, only about 5 percent of …
Month: July 2024
It’s a weird and wonderful cosmic family. That’s Dinky for you Last year, images taken by NASA’s Lucy spacecraft revealed that a small moon orbiting an asteroid called “Dinky” is, in fact, two small moons fused together. The discovery baffled scientists, who had never seen this type of satellite, known as a contact binary, orbiting …