Researchers have found a suspected clump of dark matter lurking within the luminous halo of a well-known "Einstein ring." The ...

A man in Australia stored an unusual rock in his home for years, convinced it was hiding gold inside. But when experts ...

In a distant stretch of the universe, more than 10 billion light-years from Earth, astronomers have discovered something ...

A new study has revealed that our understanding of the South Pole-Aitken basin was quite literally back-to-front, meaning ...

The largest-ever study on neophobia, or fear of novelty, has discovered the key reasons why some bird species are more ...

Starship launched from Starbase, Texas, amid plans for Elon Musk, SpaceX to expand operations for megarocket to lift off from Space Coast of Florida.

Scientists imaged the heart of the OJ 287 galaxy, uncovering a curved plasma jet around what appears to be two merging ...

Astronomers have detected one of the darkest objects ever seen at a record cosmic distance—only with the assistance of ...

Astronomers have made an exciting breakthrough in the search for the universe’s most mysterious substance—dark matter. They ...