What is dark energy? Why does dark energy seem to be weakening? Is our universe part of a larger multiverse? What lies beyond the boundary of a black hole? The universe seems to be rotating, and if ...

Japanese physicists have revived Kelvin’s old idea of cosmic knots, showing how these tangled fields might explain why matter ...

Evidence of this quantum layer may be coming soon. Here’s what you’ll learn in this story: Physicists are still puzzling over ...

The universe contains roughly 2 trillion galaxies and countless mysteries, including dark matter, supermassive black holes, ...

Researchers study neutrino oscillations, with Ohio State's Zoya Vallari developing a detector to better understand these ...

I/ATLAS was first discovered on July 1, 2025, by the ATLAS telescope system in Hawaii. Its hyperbolic orbit, a trajectory not ...

Tel Aviv scientists predict ancient radio signals from the early Universe that could reveal how dark matter shaped stars and ...

The universe is a vast, spectacular place that humans have striven to understand for millennia. Now, with the help of instruments such as the Hubble Space Telescope, which snapped this image of the ...

1. What Are Fermi Bubbles? No, this is not a rare digestive disorder. The bubbles are massive, mysterious structures that emanate from the Milky Ways center and extend roughly 20,000 light-years above ...

Aug. 1 is Women Astronomers Day, highlighting the historical achievements of women in astronomy. The designation honors the birthdate, in 1818, of Maria Mitchell, the first American woman astronomer ...

But then, as Turner explains in the 2022 Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science, mysteries are only to be expected. The scientific study of cosmology, the field that focuses on the origins and ...