Scientists are confident that dark matter exists because of its gravitational effects on a grand scale in the universe ...

They call it dark matter—an invisible substance thought to make up most of the universe’s mass, sculpting galaxies and ...

Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) is currently a 5th-magnitude fuzzball low in the northwestern sky. This means that, from a dark site ...

For the first time ever, astronomers revealed the birthplace of an energetic jet blasted by a newborn star using the Atacama ...

Astronomers have witnessed something that no one believed possible: a black hole ripping apart a star not at the center of a ...

When scientists discovered an enormous black hole thousands of light-years from where it ought to be in space, they knew they ...

The James Webb Telescope captures the beginning of planetary formation around the young star HOPS-315 for the first time.

The startup wants to use technology invented at MIT to make it easier and cheaper to build solar arrays, commercial centers ...

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

We previously covered such “gravity telescopes” with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and the Kamioka Gravitational Wave Detector (KAGRA). These early 2 nd generation of ...

Astronomers discover a low-mass dark object through gravitational lensing and multiple radiotelescopes across Earth.

We thought we understood planets, but the planetary disk chemistry of far-away XUE 10 is completely changing our conception ...