To probe the mysteries of how galaxies evolve over time, scientists needed a supercomputer with out-of-this-world ...

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 ...

MIT joins the consortium building the Giant Magellan Telescope, thanks to a donation by Phillip and Susan Ragon.

Dark matter is a type of matter that does not emit, absorb, or reflect light, making it invisible to telescopes. Israeli scientists have outlined a groundbreaking method to study dark matter, ...

The astronaut heard the noise during a mission in 2003, a sound that could not be explained at the time, and neither had it ...

A neutrino sensor array, ARCA, lines the Mediterranean seafloor near Sicily. A physicist took ARCA’s first huge win to a warm ...

From the origins of the universe to the nature of dark energy, this video takes you on a journey through the great unknowns ...

Astronomers at Penn State have nicknamed the objects “universe breakers,” which may be unusual black hole atmospheres and ...

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 ...