Dark matter plays a crucial role in galaxy formation by acting as a gravitational “glue” that helps pull gas together to form ...

In a recent study published in the Astrophysical Journalletters, scientists confirmed something both exhilarating and ...

Astronomers use many methods to determine this number, including gravitational lensing, the universe’s expansion rate, and more.

Scientists at Rutgers and collaborators have traced the invisible dark matter scaffolding of the universe using over 100,000 ...

Most cosmologists believe that these stars were the first large, free-floating structures to illuminate our universe, and ...

IT IS ONE of the biggest mysteries in cosmology—and getting bigger all the time. Ever since Edwin Hubble, an American astronomer, published observations of distant galaxies in 1929, scientists have ...

Knowable Magazine reports that neutrinos may help explain the universe's missing antimatter, shedding light on ...

Our understanding of cosmology hinges on how well we know our own local universe, which remains poorly mapped and poorly ...

A neutrino sensor array, ARCA, lines the Mediterranean seafloor near Sicily. A physicist took ARCA’s first huge win to a warm ...