An international team of astronomers has used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to observe a well-known ...

University of Iowa researchers have demonstrated in two new studies how a semiconductor material can be used to create ...

Dark matter is an enigmatic form of matter not expected to emit light, yet it is essential to understanding how the rich ...

Using a global network of telescopes, astronomers have detected the lowest-mass dark object yet found in the universe.

Discovery: An international team has discovered a dark object in the distant universe that has one million times the mass of ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered a massive red supergiant star just before it exploded, finally solving a cosmic ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered dazzling newborn stars and thick cosmic dust in Sagittarius B2, the Milky Way's ...

A black hole in a distant quasar is growing faster than the usual limit, according to Chandra observations. This may explain ...

New data from the James Webb Space Telescope may solve a riddle from the universe’s beginnings. A compact, distant object ...

Cosmic dust, it turns out, isn’t made of miniature rocks. It’s fluff. A comprehensive analysis of data from space missions, advanced computer simulations, and innovative laboratory experiments argues ...

A stronomers have broken two records in one thanks to an incredible serendipitous alignment of cosmic objects. It's the ...

Einstein’s version of dark energy is known as the cosmological constant. It implies a fixed amount of dark energy in each ...