In the leading model of cosmology, most of the universe is invisible: a combined 95% is made of dark matter and dark energy.

For centuries, Europeans thought that eternal daylight saturated the cosmos. The shift to a dark universe has had a profound ...

Dark matter is special in that it doesn't emit, absorb or interact with light, so science had to find a more creative way to ...

The Boreendo’s inscription highlights mounting global concern over vanishing micro-traditions that survive with only one or ...

For nearly a century, dark matter has been the invisible scaffolding of the universe, inferred from its gravitational pull ...

A radical new theory begins with a central claim: consciousness is the fundamental field of reality; time, space, and matter ...

“If this is correct, to the extent of my knowledge, it would mark the first time humanity has ‘seen’ dark matter. And it ...

There's always a touch of melancholy when a chapter that has absorbed years of work comes to an end. In the case of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope ...

The Nobel-winning author, whose newest book is out this week, discusses work by a few of her favorite writers.

High in the Ecuadorian Andes, where dense clouds settle over terraced fields and villages stitched into the mountainsides, a ...