What if dark matter isn’t some exotic particle that stubbornly eludes discovery but is instead swarms of tiny “primordial” ...

A blip of light in the outer reaches of the Milky Way might be a bizarre black hole born at the beginning of time itself—and ...

An international research team led by Chinese scientists at the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of ...

Matt Freese once wrote a college research project on penalty kicks. Now he’s competing to be the starting goalie for the U.S.

The universe is a cosmic web, woven from vast filaments that connect galaxies and clusters. Elena Pinetti explains how these ...

Ball lightning remains one of the most mysterious natural phenomena that has been observed by thousands of people around the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has uncovered supermassive black holes when the Universe was barely 500 million years ...

Anyone who has been paying attention to cosmology over the past few years is aware of problems with our best attempts to ...

Newtons Law of Gravity just survived its biggest cosmic test. Scientists studied nearly 686,000 galaxies spread across 7 billion light-years. The result surprised even modern cosmologists. Gravity ...

Modern cosmology assumes dark matter exists. But what makes us so certain that dark matter is the answer—and what if we're wrong?

A new study suggests that decaying dark matter may have helped create the universe’s first supermassive black holes much earlier than expected. The idea could explain why these massive objects show up ...