In the search to understand how the universe came to be, a new theory is rewriting the script. Instead of one massive, fiery ...

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

Mysterious dark matter makes up 85 percent of matter in the universe, and of the remaining 15 percent, scientists couldn’t ...

Scientists may be just 15 years away from finally detecting dark matter thanks to a new kind of detector that acts like a ...

A bold new theory suggests the universe didn’t begin with a single Big Bang, but instead unfolds through a series of ...

These series of step-like bursts happen so rapidly that they are difficult to observe as these singularities wink in and out ...

Physicist Richard Lieu first explored the idea that gravity could exist without mass—now he’s got a new cosmological model ...

Classical physics theories suggest that when two or more electromagnetic waves interfere destructively (i.e., with their ...

A massive clump of dark matter in the Perseus galaxy cluster is linked to its core by a bridge of dark matter, evidence of a ...

Astronomers have long been puzzled by two strange phenomena at the heart of our galaxy. First, the gas in the central molecular zone (CMZ), a dense ...

Gough’s blowtorch theory and the evolutionary cosmology is, he suggested, “more exciting and attractive right now than the ...

Galaxies and dark matter are so connected in theory because galaxies are thought to form as the result of gas and dust pouring into wells in space, and these wells are created by the gravitational ...