The CMZ spans almost 700 light years and contains some of the most dense molecular gas in the galaxy. Over the years, ...

Astronomers have long been puzzled by two strange phenomena at the heart of our galaxy. First, the gas in the central ...

Scientists have designed a 'cosmic radio' detector which could discover dark matter in 15 years. Published today in Nature, scientists at King's College London, Harvard University, UC Berkley and ...

Euclid's first data release offers a breathtaking glimpse into our universe, revealing over 26 million galaxies and ...

Astronomers may have found the long-missing half of the universe's regular matter—and it appears to have been right under our ...

A new idea about cosmic expansion has emerged that might remove the need for dark matter and dark energy altogether.

A new cosmic model suggests that singularities could briefly pop into existence, spewing matter and energy into the cosmos, negating the need for dark energy and dark matter.

A group of comets with unexplained movements presents a quandary D avide Farnocchia hunts down and tracks asteroids, and several years ago he saw something he couldn’t explain. Farnocchia works at ...

For decades, scientists have known that ordinary matter — everything made of atoms — accounts for just 15% of the universe’s ...

The unusual galaxy was profiled in two complimentary studies. The first study, led by Doctoral Candidate Yimeng Tang of the University of California, Santa Cruz and published in the journal ...

Ostriker is responsible for groundbreaking discoveries that forever changed the way astronomers think about what the universe is made of, including the existence of dark matter.