New mapping of the Milky Way has uncovered a vast family tree of stellar siblings, revealing that hundreds of star clusters ...

Using artificial intelligence, researchers at the RIKEN Center for Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences, ...

According to ESA’s reporting on the study, the wave behaves like ripples expanding from a stone dropped into water, though in ...

On most nights, city skies hide the stars. Streetlights, buildings, and cars fill the air with artificial glow that drowns ...

A technique called interferometry can greatly magnify tiny objects on the sky, and is powerful enough to reveal the surfaces ...

The shower peaks overnight on 13 and 14 December, but meteors can be seen in the days before and after this. To see them use ...

Everything you see around you—your phone, your cat, the Earth, the stars—makes up just 15% of the mass in the universe. The ...

For decades, scientists have only inferred dark matter’s existence through its gravitational pull on galaxies, but may now ...

A Japanese astronomer believes he has finally captured the first direct glimpse of dark matter, a discovery that, if ...

A researcher identified gamma ray emissions that appear to have originated from dark matter, but other physicists still ...

In the dense environment of the early universe, dark matter particles would collide with, and annihilate, each other, releasing energy in the process. This energy could heat the hydrogen and helium ...

This makes it appear correspondingly smaller through a telescope—infinitesimally smaller, in fact, appearing as only a point ...