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Scientists may have finally found the universe’s missing matter - hidden in invisible hydrogen gas far beyond galaxies.

The interstellar plasma is turbulent and scatters pulsar radio waves slightly away from a direct, straight line path. The ...

Astronomers have discovered a rare kind of galaxy that seems to be missing one of the universe’s most important ingredients: ...

A groundbreaking study,published in March 2025 on the preprint server arXiv, reveals that ultralight dark matter might have ...

A pulsar is a neutron star, a super-dense stellar remnant that ... with an optical image we constructed a new three-dimensional model of the shock, which appears to be tilted slightly away from ...

Astronomers have long struggled with a troubling puzzle: a significant portion of normal matter in the universe appeared to ...

Some models of dark matter predict that ... creating a course of light in the universe before the appearance of the first stars. But there's one problem: Those photons were way too low-energy ...

Using data from space telescopes and other instruments, astronomers, cosmologists, and astrophysicists are able to deduce and ...

Discover new insights into neutron star masses and formation. Learn how recent findings are reshaping astrophysics and ...