Auroras, shimmering bands of light that shoot through the night sky near the Earth’s poles, can follow patterns known as arcs ...

Pulsating remnants of stars hint at a clump of invisible matter thought to be about 10 million times the sun’s mass.

Ciaran O'Hare scribbles symbols using colored markers across his whiteboard like he's trying to solve a crime—or perhaps planning one. He bounces around the edges of the board, slowly filling it with ...

"It highlights gravity's possible hidden complexity and invites a reevaluation of where dark matter effects originate." ...

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have uncovered experimental evidence that ...

A new high-resolution map of distant galaxies may help scientists understand the mysterious dark matter holding the universe ...

Astronomers puzzled out minuscule distortions in images of faraway galaxies taken by JWST in order to chart the invisible ...

Explore Thwaites Glacier, a critical Antarctic ice mass influencing global sea levels and climate change impacts on coastal ...

High-resolution images may help scientists understand the ‘gravitational scaffolding into which everything else falls and is ...

Women most often ranked male bodies more attractive when they exhibited a higher shoulder-to-hip ratio (i.e. a V-shape) and a larger penis. That said, these attributes had their limits. There came a ...

Astronomers used James Webb Space Telescope data to determine the density of the universe's most mysterious "stuff." ...

When materials become just one atom thick, melting no longer follows the familiar rules. Instead of jumping straight from solid to liquid, an unusual in-between state emerges, where atomic positions ...