For more than a century, physics has been built on two great theories. Einstein's general relativity explains gravity as the ...

Dark energy—the term used to describe whatever is causing the universe to expand at an increasing rate—is one of the universe ...

For a quarter century, cosmology has leaned on one framework to explain how the universe expands. Known as the ΛCDM model, it ...

Astronomers are using radio pulses from space to find missing baryonic matter and learn about supermassive black holes, ...

Using one of the world’s most advanced spectroscopy systems, researchers have developed a framework to guide studies in ...

Scientists at Rutgers and collaborators have traced the invisible dark matter scaffolding of the universe using over 100,000 ...

Black holes are so strange that physicists have long wondered if they are quite what they seem. Now we are set to find out if ...

The Big Bang may have spawned these theoretical black holes, whose lives are thought to end in a burst of extremely energetic particles.

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Determining the nature of dark matter, the invisible substance that makes up most of the mass in our universe, is one of the greatest puzzles in physics. New results from the world’s most sensitive ...

Dark matter plays a crucial role in galaxy formation by acting as a gravitational “glue” that helps pull gas together to form ...

A Chilean astronomer has become dedicated to battling light pollution in the Atacama Desert and preserve what is considered the best place on Earth to study space.