"It's a fairly unusual question to ask in the scientific world, because most researchers would agree that dark matter is dark ...

A team of astronomers have found a mysterious object in the distant universe that could be dark matter or an inactive smaller ...

Why is the universe expanding at an ever-increasing rate? This is one of the most exciting yet unresolved questions in modern ...

What is dark energy? Why does dark energy seem to be weakening? Is our universe part of a larger multiverse? What lies beyond the boundary of a black hole? The universe seems to be rotating, and if ...

On human timescales, the universe may as well be eternal. It’ll be here long after our species and our planet are gone, but ...

Astronomers have detected a mysterious dark object in the distant universe — and its size has them fascinated.

Our cosmos seems, at times, like one impossibly vast factory, just pumping out mysteries. The deeper we peer, the more we ...

Scientists using a global array of radio telescopes have detected the universe’s lowest-mass dark object by observing how it warped light through gravitational lensing. The invisible mass, about a ...

A mysterious object with a mass equivalent to 1 million suns has been detected in space, but its nature remains unknown.

TAMIU will host a public lecture Wednesday on dark matter, featuring Dr. Timothy Andeen’s research on subatomic particles and ...

Aug. 1 is Women Astronomers Day, highlighting the historical achievements of women in astronomy. The designation honors the birthdate, in 1818, of Maria Mitchell, the first American woman astronomer ...

Michio Kaku explores two great mysteries: what existed before the universe and how the human brain creates ...