Our universe does host life, but it’s not the most optimal universe for life. Published in 1962 by American astronomer Frank ...

SPHEREx is slated to launch Feb. 27 on a SpaceX rocket. It is meant to map the entire night sky in infrared — something even ...

By combining data from NASA’s IRAS and NuSTAR telescopes, scientists have uncovered more hidden supermassive black holes than earlier estimates suggested. Their findings indicate that over a third of ...

After decades of study, scientists sound genuinely optimistic about the possibility of detecting primordial black holes, which might explain dark matter.

The majority of our evidence for dark matter’s existence comes from observing visible (or baryonic) matter that does not ...

Computer algorithms can model the universe, matching simulations to observations and revealing the distribution of dark ...

A fast radio burst, or a strong pulse of energy, was tracked to a distant long-dead galaxy that astronomers never thought ...

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are brief emissions of radio waves, lasting a fraction of a second but with as much energy as the ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

The United States Postal Service has issued two new stamps featuring stellar images beamed back to Earth by the James Webb ...

Recent studies challenge the long-held belief that the Milky Way is a standard model for understanding galaxy formation, ...

Because we haven't found anything yet, we've started to wonder if dark matter might be lighter or heavier than we thought.