The latest approach has been to use Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), powerful emissions of radio waves that last just a fraction of ...

Astronomers have been baffled for decades by a cosmic deficit: the Milky Way’s calculated entourage of satellite galaxies is ...

Astronomers believe that strange objects known as “dark dwarfs” may be hiding at the center of our galaxy, and discovering ...

Scientists at the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, including some from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, broke ...

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

Researchers have identified two genes from the human genome’s “dark matter” that influence brain size and synaptic signaling.

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

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

Supposing humanity is still around billions of years from now, scientists say it’s unlikely we would notice any distinct ...

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

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