Astronomers have long been puzzled by two strange phenomena at the heart of our galaxy. First, the gas in the central ...

Scientists have designed a 'cosmic radio' detector which could discover dark matter in 15 years. Published today in Nature, scientists at King's College London, Harvard University, UC Berkley and ...

Earth's rocky layers are mysteriously low in nitrogen compared with carbon and argon. A scientific team explored our planet's molten youth using advanced quantum mechanical simulations, revealing ...

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

Astronomers have discovered the most distant and thus earliest spiral galaxy ever seen, using the James Webb Space Telescope ...

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 ...

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

A new idea about cosmic expansion has emerged that might remove the need for dark matter and dark energy altogether.

Some galaxies that should have ceased forming stars long ago are defying expectations. Anew theory proposes the existence of ...

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 ...

For decades, scientists have known that ordinary matter — everything made of atoms — accounts for just 15% of the universe’s ...