The new research suggests an alternative origin. Dark matter could have instead been born extremely hot, opening up ...

Space is filled with a variety of objects, some blisteringly hot, some tremendously cold, but areas with little to nothing at ...

If there is an absolute law in the universe, it’s that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. For science-fiction enthusiasts, that’s a bit depressing. Space is big, and while the speed of ...

Everything humanity has ever touched, measured, or imagined as “normal” matter is a tiny sliver of reality. Less than 5 percent of the known cosmos is made of the atoms that build stars, smartphones, ...

It’s always amazing, and more than a little humbling, when the universe reminds us that our “common sense” is provincial, falling apart on cosmic scales. If you’re on the surface of Earth—and I’m ...

Wormholes are often imagined as tunnels through space or time—shortcuts across the universe. But this image rests on a ...

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) in Chile has released its final batch of data after 15 years — and it proves that the Hubble tension, a rift in our understanding of the universe, is very real.

However, not everybody agrees with this widely accepted scientific consensus. In a controversial new paper, published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, a team led by ...