Dark matter makes up the majority of the universe. A new sky map provides clues about its influence on the visible part of ...

An international collaboration of scientists from Durham University in the UK, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and École ...

When people picture the universe, they imagine everything still out there, sitting in space waiting to be discovered. The truth is far stranger. Most of the universe has already slipped out of view ...

Astronomers have discovered "dust-shrouded supermassive black holes" in the early universe, less than 1 billion years after the Big Bang—a type of object that had previously escaped detection. An ...

If you look across space with a telescope, you'll see countless galaxies, most of which host large central black holes, billions of stars and their attendant planets. The universe teems with huge, ...

"The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World" is the first known list of the most remarkable creations of classical antiquity; it was based on guidebooks popular among Hellenic sightseers and only includes ...