Dark matter is hypothesized to outweigh "ordinary matter" in the universe by a factor of five. That means all the stuff we ...

Astronomers tallying up all the normal matter—stars, galaxies and gas—in the universe today have come up embarrassingly short ...

Researchers have discovered a group of galaxies that have so far been inaccessible to Earth-based telescopes. These "hidden" ...

The latest findings from the KATRIN experiment establish a maximum weight of under 0.45 electronvolts for neutrinos, the universe's lightest particle. Conducted over several years with international ...

Discover the power of black holes and their jets, and how they impact the formation of stars and potentially habitable worlds ...

Researchers have discovered a group of galaxies that have, until now, been inaccessible to Earth-based telescopes. These ...

A team has revealed new insights into the motion of massive stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a small galaxy neighboring the Milky Way. Their findings suggest that the gravitational pull of ...

Researchers link two ancient mass extinctions to nearby supernova explosions, which may have damaged Earth's atmosphere and triggered global biodiversity loss. A new study suggests that at least two o ...

While superheroes dominate film and TV, many iconic Marvel and DC heroes still await their breakout in gaming. Characters ...

A new study in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society by researchers including István Szapudi of the University of ...

A new paper provides scientists with a groundbreaking tool for understanding cataclysmic events. Physicist Glennys Farrar has ...

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows thousands of glittering galaxies that it spied by peering through ...