A Douglas County native who is an associate professor of astronomy at California Institute of Technology, or Caltech, ...

Scientists think they have finally found evidence for the existence of a cosmic object that has only existed in theory. Dark ...

A new paper presents a method for distinguishing between different sources of nanohertz gravitational waves. Pulsars may be ...

Scientists may have spotted dark matter for the first time as a mysterious gamma-ray glow at the center of the Milky Way ...

As the government shutdown drags on, scientists and advocates remain focused on the long-term effects of proposed budget cuts ...

Fellows receive an $800,000, no-strings-attached grant to pursue their interests. Since 2020, UC alumni and faculty have ...

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If there are aliens out there somewhere in the vast universe, as many have suggested, why haven't they contacted us? A new theory proposes that perhaps ...

Dark matter is a fundamental hypothesis when it comes to our understanding of the universe, but it remains a hypothesis. We ...

Prize-winning black hole theoretical physicist Alex Lupsasca has joined OpenAI's new science team, Axios has learned. The big ...

UW-Milwaukee physics and astronomy assistant professor Lia Medeiros explains gravitational waves and the role UWM played in discovering them.

When astronomers pointed the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) at a faint object orbiting a distant star system, they weren’t ...