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Searching for Primordial Antimatter Sunday, November 02, 2008 - Anuradha Menon Home >> Headlines >> Space   
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Scientists are on the hunt for evidence of antimatter - matter's arch nemesis - leftover from the very early Universe. New results using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Compton Gamma Ray Observatory suggest the search may have just become even more difficult. Antimatter is made up of elementary particles, each of which has the same mass as their corresponding matter counterparts --protons, neutrons and electrons -- but the opposite charges and magnetic properties. (source: chandra.harvard.edu)
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