This cloud is a window into the dark Universe,” study co-author and Space Telescope Science Institute (STCScl) team member ...

Physicists are quietly entertaining one of the strangest ideas in modern cosmology: that the cosmos we see might be only half ...

An object spotted in deep space is the strongest candidate yet for a galaxy arrested during early development.

A new study questions dark energy's role in the universe's acceleration, suggesting it may be weakening instead.

This study could transform our understanding of the future of the universe and raise the possibility that the universe may ...

Large gaseous exoplanets could be filled with self-destructing dark matter. And now, a team of researchers has proposed using the soon-to-be-launched James Webb Space Telescope to scan distant ...

Dark matter doesn’t really do much of anything in the present-day universe. But in the early days of the cosmos, there may have been pockets of dark matter with high enough density that they provided ...

Physics is good at explaining many of our universe’s strange phenomena — from the way invisible beams of the light fan into rainbows to how rocket fuel can propel us into space. Even so, there are ...

A long-standing myth about medieval history is that the Middle Ages were intellectually dark. Science supposedly took a hiatus between the demise of Rome and the rise of Copernican astronomy and ...

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