For centuries, Europeans thought that eternal daylight saturated the cosmos. The shift to a dark universe has had a profound ...

Smooth filaments stretching for many light-years, seen by the powerful space telescope, could indicate what the right "recipe" is for dark matter.

In the dense environment of the early universe, dark matter particles would collide with, and annihilate, each other, ...

Normal matter – which makes up everything we see and touch – isn’t the only type of matter present in the universe.

A scientific experiment aimed at detecting dark matter in space launched from Antarctica on December 15, with significant ...

Alexey A Petrov receives funding from the US Department of Energy. Scientists working with the James Webb Space Telescope discovered three unusual astronomical objects in early 2025, which may be ...

Australian researchers have played a central role in a landmark result from the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment in South ...

We can’t always see the light when we are in the dark. But the light can always see us. I was watching my son come out of the water at the beach. He was laughing until he wasn’t. He couldn’t see me. I ...

Why does space look dark if the universe is full of stars? This was the question asked by Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers in 1823. From there came the famous "Olbers Paradox." It tells us that, in a static ...

Then, on November 25, teams at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, joined the inner and outer portions ...

Critics argue the satellites, billed as a way to harness solar energy at night, could hamper sky observations and may pose a threat to human and animal health ...

A new study says observations from the NASA Fermi space telescope suggest a halo of dark matter around the center of our galaxy, but more information is needed to confirm the result. When you purchase ...