"We don't know the frequency, so we need to keep tuning and trying different ones, like searching for a good radio station ...

Published in Nature, scientists at King's College London, Harvard University, UC Berkeley and others have shared the ...

Dark matter is hypothesized to outweigh "ordinary matter" in the universe by a factor of five. That means all the stuff we ...

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 ...

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

Despite decades of searching for this signal, astronomers have yet to find it. The problem is that our Earth is too noisy, making it nearly impossible to capture this whisper. The solution is to go to ...

Gravity pulls us to earth, a lesson you learn viscerally the first time you fall. Isaac Newton described gravity as a ...

In the vast universe, galaxies rotate in ways that don’t make sense if only visible matter is considered. For almost a ...

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 ...

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