If not in visible stars and galaxies, the most likely hiding place for the matter is in the dark space between galaxies.

NASA’s Scientific Balloon Program is back in Antarctica, launching two exciting balloon missions that aim to uncover some of ...

Dusty stars close to the Milky Way’s black hole stay stable for years. New infrared data shows they survive gravity and ...

An object inside our galaxy is moving so fast that it is on track to break free of the Milky Way altogether, racing through ...

NASA's next big eye on the cosmos is now fully assembled. On Nov. 25, technicians joined the inner and outer portions of the ...

The team used two of the most powerful supercomputers, capable of performing a quintillion operations per second.

Space questions everything about what we know about existence and consists of gigantic stars, icy comets and distant worlds ...

A recent investigation uncovers Srinivasa Ramanujan’s pi equations as central not only to advanced computing but also as mathematical patterns emerging in high-energy physics, deepening scientific ...

A small star named M82 X-2 breaks physical barriers, as NASA's NuSTAR confirms it shines 10 million times brighter than the ...

Chile’s Atacama Desert is one of the darkest spots on Earth, a crown jewel for astronomers who flock to study the origins of ...

Surprisingly, some of the universe's brightest objects are black holes. As scorching gas and dust flow around and into a ...