Researchers have unveiled a new model for the universe’s birth that replaces cosmic inflation with gravitational waves as the ...

Why is the universe expanding at an ever-increasing rate? This is one of the most exciting yet unresolved questions in modern ...

The observable universe is the portion of the cosmos that we can see or detect from Earth, limited by the speed of light and ...

A new study on gamma rays from the Milky Way’s center suggests dark matter particles may finally have been indirectly ...

Scientists may be coming closer to confirming the existence of dark matter - the invisible stuff thought to make up more than ...

An excess of gamma rays in the center of our galaxy could mean scientists have finally detected dark matter particles—or not ...

Enshittification author Cory Doctorow says specific policy choices led to today’s broken web — and could lead us out.

The Methuselah Star, also known asHD 140283, has long been a subject of fascination among astronomers. Its age, initially ...

When space telescopes blazed with high-energy radiation for hours earlier this year, astronomers suspected that they were ...

“The Copernican principle is a cornerstone of most of astronomy, it is assumed without question, and plays an important role ...

Researchers have built a small but powerful detector to find gravitational waves in a hidden frequency range. The discovery could expose unseen black hole activity and early-universe echoes.

Uncover the mystery of the gamma ray glow at the Milky Way's center. New simulations suggest dark matter collisions could ...