Dark energy and black holes are two of the most mysterious topics when it comes to space, but they might actually be linked.

Such an exponential expansion may seem minor, but it is equivalent to a grape in the palm of your hand swelling to become ...

Astronomers have unveiled a new map of the universe’s largest structures—massive clusters of galaxies that stretch across ...

The Dark Energy Camera on the Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile captured ...

For the first time, an international research team led by the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy ...

Does dark matter follow the same laws as ordinary matter? The mystery of this invisible and hypothetical component of our universe—which neither emits nor reflects light—remains unsolved. A team ...

An unexpected monster black hole was found hiding inside one of the Milky Way's tiniest neighbors, rewriting what scientists ...

The very first generation of stars, called Population III stars, are mostly expected to be too distant to see directly – but ...

New model shows extremely massive stars, over 1,000 solar masses, shaped the birth and early evolution of the universe's ...

New strategies may soon allow scientists to test dark energy theories within our own solar system, linking cosmic-scale physics to local observation. Science advances through a cycle of proposing ...

A new study suggests the Milky Way’s gamma-ray glow could be a dark matter signal shaped by ancient galactic mergers.

We measure the “warmness” of the dark matter, i.e. the comoving root-mean-square thermal velocity v hrms (1) , with nearly 3000 spiral galaxy rotation curves in the ...