Materials scientists can learn a lot about a sample material by shooting lasers at it. With nonlinear optical microscopy—a ...

The new study from the team at the University of York suggests that dark matter could leave very faint, measurable marks on ...

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope hint that the universe’s first stars might not have been ordinary fusion ...

Scientists have blown stargazers’ collective minds after discovering a massive dark object in space that’s completely ...

Knee high by the Fourth of July.” The adage refers to a farmer’s goal for their crops if they hope to make the October ...

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

Coccolithophores, tiny planktonic architects of Earth’s climate, capture carbon, produce oxygen, and leave behind geological ...

We know the Earth’s inner core is largely solid, which sets a ceiling on its temperature, and in turn, how much heat dark ...

Dark matter, mysterious invisible stuff that makes up most of the mass of galaxies including our own Milky Way, is confounding scientists again, with new observations of distant galaxies conflicting ...

According to the model, dark matter may have started as particles that were hot, light, massless, and fast. As the universe ...