A computer simulation of stars near the centre of our galaxy offers an explanation for their mysteriously young appearance – ...

Key TakeawaysScientists have used laser-excited thorium-229 to probe for ultralight dark matter, even without a fully built ...

Hubble's new image of galaxy cluster Abell 209 reveals over 100 galaxies and gravitational lensing effects from dark matter ...

A dark star still shines, but it has something scientists have only theorized about it and can't prove the existence since it ...

Though invisible, dark matter has a strong pull on space. Its presence bends spacetime, changing the paths of light nearby.

It took about 50 exploding stars to upend cosmology. Researchers mapped and measured light from Type Ia supernovae, the ...

From dark energy to dark matter, most of the universe operates beyond the reach of direct observation. This deep dive breaks ...

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

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope is set to embark on a deep-sky survey that could capture nearly 100,000 cosmic explosions, ...

The traditional wisdom says resting meat keeps it juicy. But when we put that idea to the test, we found a different reason ...

A new theory promises to simplify our approach to the universe's earliest moments, but some cosmologists say further ...

Physicists would dearly love to find new particles, but there's no sign of them in colliders like the LHC. Now we have found ...