Dark matter, a type of matter that does not emit, absorb, or reflect light, is predicted to account for most of the ...

For nearly a century, scientists around the world have been searching for dark matter—an invisible substance believed to make ...

Dark matter is a real pain in the neck. The term dark matter itself refers to a hypothetical substance that seems to solely interact with the rest of the universe via gravity and to serve as the ...

In a chilled lab where temperatures drop close to absolute zero, a speck of magnet hovers in place. This tiny magnet, ...

A colossal cluster of galaxies is bending the very fabric of space—and it’s the focus of this week’s breathtaking image from ...

A team of scientists is proposing a bold alternative to the Big Bang theory, suggesting that our universe may have formed ...

Key TakeawaysType Ia supernovae let us precisely measure cosmic distances and gave us the first evidence of the universe's ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has provided groundbreaking insights into the Bullet Cluster, a cosmic collision zone located 3.8 billion light-years from Earth. The JWST’s enhanced imaging ...

What if the cosmos’s most violent deaths might shed light on its darkest secrets? NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, ...

And astronomers have a brand-new, superpowerful eye with which to see the changing cosmos: the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in ...

Astronomers are excited about the first test images released today from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which show the ...