A professor at the University of Cincinnati and his colleagues have figured out something two of America's most famous ...

Scientists still struggle to understand consciousness, aging, memory formation and why humans hiccup or yawn, revealing a ...

By studying tiny distortions in the shapes of distant galaxies, scientists mapped dark matter and dark energy across one of the largest sky surveys ever assembled. Their results back the standard ...

By studying faint distortions in galaxy shapes across a vast region of sky, scientists probed the hidden structure of the universe. In the standard picture of the universe, nearly everything is hidden ...

Dark matter is an elusive type of matter that does not emit, reflect or absorb light, yet is estimated to account for most of ...

Explore the debate surrounding a potential dark matter discovery, highlighting skepticism and the need for rigorous ...

Cosmologists are finally beginning to sketch a coherent picture of the universe we cannot see, using exquisitely detailed ...

In smaller dark stars, when their dark matter runs out, normal nuclear fusion can begin, and they gradually become normal ...

In the leading model of cosmology, most of the universe is invisible: a combined 95 percent is made of dark matter and dark energy. Exactly what these dark components are remains a mystery, but they ...

Reactors designed to produce energy from the fusion of atoms could have an unexpected scientific side benefit. An ...

Recent observational breakthroughs are beginning to challenge the long-standing view of dark energy as unchanging. Data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument ( DESI ), an advanced survey ...

Jared Isaacman will lead NASA as it sends astronauts around the moon and hopes to launch a space telescope to study dark ...