Another tactic that Senate Republicans are employing is continuing to bring appropriations bills to the floor amid the ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Scientists may be coming closer to confirming the existence of dark matter - the invisible stuff ...

The dark object has a mass a million times greater than our sun's is located 10 billion light-years away and has no stars.

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John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis were recognized for work that made behaviors of the subatomic realm ...

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An international team of astronomers, including one from the University of Cape Town (UCT), has made a groundbreaking discovery: a rare "Einstein Cross" galaxy in the early Universe. This celestial ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

Names matter. The names we choose for buildings and roads and bridges inform members of the community, as well as those who are passing through, what our values are as a community. That’s why I oppose ...

Faint hydrogen signals from the cosmic Dark Ages may soon help determine the mass of dark matter particles. Simulations suggest future Moon-based observatories could distinguish between warm and cold ...

When gravity—an invisible yet ubiquitous force—bends and distorts light from distant galaxies, Earthbound observers get a rare glimpse of elusive cosmic phenomena. And the weirder the glitch, the more ...

For all our telescopes and colliders, dark matter has remained an elusive ghost for the better part of a century. It outweighs everything we see by a factor of five, yet it slips past every detector ...