For decades, dark matter has been the universe’s most stubborn mystery, silently shaping galaxies while refusing to show ...

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A cosmological simulation study by researchers from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has systematically revealed, for the first time, how the interaction ...

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

Stars powered by dark matter instead of nuclear fusion could solve several mysteries of the early universe, and we may have ...

A newly proposed type of supermassive black hole surrounded by a dense gas shell may account for the small red dots seen in ...

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A Star Trek–inspired idea by Miguel Alcubierre kicked off decades of theory and experiments as scientists pursue plausible ...

In 1999, Belgian physicist Chris Van Den Broeck implemented a minor alteration to Alcubierre’s concept by shrinking the ...

A 23-day countdown to December 19 will test every prevailing theory about what lies beyond our solar system. The speculation ...

The Listener Mailbag is open as Rob Cesternino and Brandon Donlon field questions from fans about Survivor 49 and the wider ...

UChicago physics Prof. Bonnie Fleming, who is also the chief research officer at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, is ...