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Astronomers have identified a quasar that may help explain how the universe’s “dark ages” finally ended. Astronomers have ...

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

In the latest installment of Super Hero Worship, we explore why Robert Pattinson's Batman has no business appearing in James ...

Scientists are working on an ambitious dark matter experiment in space in the hope it can unravel one of the universe's greatest mysteries.

Scientists use 3D galaxy maps to uncover hidden details about dark matter and the universe’s large-scale structure.

Space-time may hide a bizarre new kind of black hole that causes Einstein’s theory of gravity to fail – and could solve the ...

Detecting dark matter, the elusive type of matter predicted to account for most of the universe's mass, has so far proved to ...

The University of California San Diego is positioning itself as a leader in astronomical research as its new Department of ...

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

New research from Mathew Madhavacheril and Ph.D. candidate Joshua Kim of the University of Pennsylvania and their collaborators has combined cosmological data from two major surveys of the universe’s ...

Researchers hypothesize a fifth force of nature that could explain the intricate relationship between dark matter and dark ...