Dark matter is special in that it doesn't emit, absorb or interact with light, so science had to find a more creative way to ...

A team of astronomers say they've made the first ever detection of dark matter by examining gamma rays near the center of the ...

"Finding supermassive black holes at the time when the universe was less than 1 billion years old is like finding some mammal bones among the dinosaur bones in a Jurassic sedimentary rock." When you ...

"Although there have been multiple efforts to understand the nature of dark energy, its composition, and its manifestation in the universe," one expert says, "we know embarrassingly little about it." ...

Two blind spots torture physicists: the birth of the universe and the center of a black hole. The former may feel like a moment in time and the latter a point in space, but in both cases the normally ...

If you wave your hand in front of your face, you won’t notice anything particularly interesting. Perhaps a gentle waft of air against your cheek – that’s about it. No epiphany. No major sign that ...