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 ...

Tyson’s ultimate goal was to image large swathes of the sky, measuring how galaxies’ shapes distorted as their light ...

A newly-detected spinning galaxy filament is reshaping our understanding of cosmic structure, gas flows, and the origins of ...

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

The idea that we might be living in a simulated reality has worried us for centuries. Now physicists have found some ...

The universe’s expansion rate was supposed to be a solved problem, yet the latest high precision map of the early cosmos has ...

DC Comics' Absolute Universe is good, but it could really use some familiar heroic additions, like Black Canary, Blue Beetle, ...

A team of astronomers using a variety of ground and space-based telescopes including the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, ...

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

New polarization maps from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope align with Planck’s results and confirm the lower early-universe ...

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.