Recent astronomical observations have unveiled unexpected patterns in the spins of galaxies throughout the universe, leaving ...

He led a team of scientists who helped confirm that a Big Bang was the source of the universe. The discovery earned him a ...

A strange glow at the heart of our galaxy might be the long-awaited sign of dark matter, the invisible force believed to ...

Dark matter makes up about 85 percent of all matter in the universe. It neither emits nor absorbs light, making it invisible ...

On human timescales, the universe may as well be eternal. It’ll be here long after our species and our planet are gone, but ...

Scientists may be coming closer to confirming the existence of dark matter - the invisible stuff thought to make up more than ...

Periodically, the European Space Agency (ESA) releases images that provide breathtaking views of the cosmos, courtesy of its ...

The Wolfe Disk, a massive rotating disk galaxy in the early universe, was discovered in 2017 when a stargazing project in the Chilean desert examined light from a distant quasar (top left) absorbed in ...

A group of scientists may have stumbled upon a radical new way to do cosmology. Cosmologists usually determine the composition of the universe by observing as much of it as possible. But these ...

Prepare for an adrenaline-pumping expedition through the universe in "Star Trek Fleet Command"! This video provides an ...

Using the ALMA telescope in Chile and Einstein's theory of relativity, scientists observed a young galaxy in the early universe that is invisible in nearly every wavelength. When you purchase through ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the science of communication, from speech to space. The international team of scientists, led by Dr. Ken-ichi Tadaki ...