In February 2016, scientists at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) confirmed they made the ...

Reflected sunlight from a cloud of interplanetary dust around the Sun, zodiacal light is dust ... zodiacal light had to be avoided. “The Universe is dark, but not as dark as we thought ...

As black as space may seem, even the darkest corner of the universe gets light. Measuring that tiny glimmer - called the ...

It is almost 100 years since scientists discovered the universe is expanding. In the decades that followed, the accuracy of ...

Typically, the birth of a black hole requires a giant star with the mass of at least 50 of our suns to burn out—a ... as the black holes themselves: Dark matter kept hydrogen from cooling ...

New simulations suggest that there are enough primordial black holes—potential dark matter candidates—in the universe for one ...

The discovery of dark oxygen at an abyssal plain on the ocean floor generated a lot of interest. Could this oxygen source ...

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, set to launch in 2027, aims to capture high-resolution images of galaxies and cosmic ...

They found that if a primordial black hole came within a few hundred million miles of Mars, it could cause a slight “wobble” ...

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A Survey of Hubble’s Deepest Look Back into Time Uncovers New Clues There seem to be countless black holes in the universe – ...

The visible universe—including Earth, the sun, other stars ... invisible substance called dark matter (25 percent) and a force that repels gravity known as dark energy (70 percent).