Antimatter is the strange, evil twin of regular matter, and it’s thought to have been mostly banished from our universe. But could it still be lurking out there in large clumps, even as stars?

Antimatter shed by anti-stars could even be detectable here on Earth. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. We don't know why the ...

Antimatter engines could propel humanity into the next phase of spaceflight, but building them for spacecraft is still a long way off.Nzoka John / Getty Images Antimatter engines could be humanity's ...

Scientists are exploring the possibilities of antimatter propulsion as they try to achieve interstellar travel. While conventional rockets provide high thrust, they struggle with low efficiency.

Out of an estimated 100 billion stars in our galaxy, no more than 14 may be made from antimatter. That's the result from a new study that scoured the Milky Way for signs of antistars — which are ...

Astronomers searched for candidate antimatter stars among nearly 6000 gamma-ray sources. After eliminating known objects and sources that lacked the spectral signature of an antistar, 14 possibles ...

Scientists at NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory recently uncovered a twinkling little star that might hold the key to several of the universe’s deepest mysteries. Called a pulsar for its twinkle, the ...

Some of the greatest mysteries in cosmology revolve around antimatter, and it’s hard to study because it’s rare and hard to produce in the lab. Now a team of physicists has outlined a relatively ...

In the world of “Star Trek,” the starship Enterprise zips through space using a warp drive that harnesses antimatter. Suffice it to say, such technology remains in the realm of science fiction. But ...

There could be several stars made of antimatter in our solar system’s neighbourhood. There have been small hints that these strange and unlikely objects, called antistars, could exist, and a search ...

As beautiful as the universe is, astronomers still can't explain why it is the way it is. The universe should be uniform, without galaxies like seen here. A physics paper released in November 2020 ...

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