After nearly a century of chasing a shadow, physicists are staring at a new signal that looks uncannily like the long‑sought fingerprint of dark matter. The claim is bold: for the first time, a ...

The University of Innsbruck is coordinating a new FWF special research area on the dark universe, which seeks answers to the ...

An international team of researchers says it has spotted the largest rotating structure of dark matter and gas-rich galaxies.

NASA has completed assembly of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, preparing for final testing and launch by May 2027 to ...

JWST spots a mature early-universe spiral as CERN reveals how light nuclei form in extreme collisions, challenging core ...

High above Antarctica, two giant NASA balloons are being readied to drift along the edge of space, turning the polar sky into a laboratory for some of the hardest questions in physics. Instead of ...

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Nandkumar M. Kamat As the year is about to end, here is a short review of important breakthroughs in science that defined the ...

Baby, it’s cold outside — but it’s worth putting on that heavy winter coat, scarf and boots and heading out for one of the best meteor showers of the year: the Geminids.

Learn how researchers used Einstein’s theory of general relativity to create the most accurate simulations to date.

These gigantic structures, which contain hundreds or even thousands of galaxies bound together by gravity, offer important ...

In the dense environment of the early universe, dark matter particles would collide with, and annihilate, each other, ...