The universe has two kinds of matter. There is invisible dark matter, known only because of its gravitational effects on a ...

An international team of scientists led by astronomers from the University of Wisconsin–Madison has produced the most ...

A new landmark study has pinpointed the location of the universe's "missing" matter, and detected the most distant fast radio ...

Decades ago, astronomers estimated that “ordinary” matter (basically everything that isn’t dark matter or dark energy) makes ...

A pair of European satellites have created the first artificial solar eclipses through precise and fancy formation flying.

Astronomers have discovered semi-heavy water ice around a young sunlike star, reinforcing theories about the origins of water ...

"If we see the lampshade effect in action, it will tell us about what dark matter could be, which is exciting." ...

Your blood is also red because of a mixture of iron and oxygen in a molecule called hemoglobin. So in a way, the ancient connection between the planet Mars and blood wasn’t completely wrong. Rust, ...

"Fast radio bursts shine through the fog of the intergalactic medium, and by precisely measuring how the light slows down, we ...

Exceptionally powerful X-ray jets have been detected emanating from two supermassive black holes. These cosmic structures ...

A vast, glowing halo enveloping a galaxy cluster has been discovered, defying expectations and pointing to turbulent cosmic ...