The universe is vast and mysterious, with over 85% of its mass composed of an invisible substance known as dark matter.

Ethan Nadler, a computational astrophysicist at UC San Diego, may have found an answer. Using analytic predictions from ...

U.S. National Laboratories (Argonne, Lawrence Livermore, and Oak Ridge) possess three of the world’s fastest exascale ...

It's believed to account for roughly 85% of the universe's mass, yet no telescope or sensor on Earth has been able to track ...

There’s more to the universe than meets the eye, he found. His studies led astronomy to the dark side, changing our view of ...

Dr. Richard Lieu, a physics professor at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama ...

First discovered in the 1990s, dark energy has come to feel like a familiar face of the cosmos. Astronomers first imagined ...

New observations of the cosmos show that the dark energy, a mysterious force that accelerates the expansion of the universe, is evolving.

After 11 years mapping the Milky Way, the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope has retired. Scientists hailed it as ...

The space telescope's image of a odd-looking spiral galaxy is, in reality, two distant galaxies overlapping each other.

Leading this quest is the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), a global collaboration that maps the universe's 3D large-scale structure by measuring redshifts of tens of millions of celestial ...