The University of Innsbruck is coordinating a new FWF special research area on the dark universe, which seeks answers to the ...

Everything in this world is shaped by deeper truths. That idea feels especially alive when you look at Angkor Wat, the ...

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 ...

R esearchers have calculated one of the most precise estimates for the expansion rate of the universe today, and it turns out ...

It’s a powerful technique, but small uncertainties at each step can add up, something critics argue may be behind the Hubble ...

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope in Chile not only confirmed one of the greatest mysteries in the universe—it also ruled out ...

There is an important and unresolved tension in cosmology regarding the rate at which the universe is expanding, and ...

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

"It means cleaning house, narrowing the viable paths forward, and no longer spending energy on what are evidently dead ends." ...

FROSTI is a new adaptive optics system that precisely corrects distortions in LIGO’s mirrors caused by extreme laser power.

Nearly a century after astronomers first proposed dark matter to explain the strange motions of galaxies, scientists may finally be catching a glimpse of it. A University of Tokyo researcher analyzing ...

Research published Tuesday by a Japanese astrophysicist says gamma rays may have been generated by the collision of dark ...