Project Lyra is one of the boldest mission concepts ever proposed — a plan to chase down ‘Oumuamua, the bizarre interstellar ...

Everything you see around you—your phone, your cat, the Earth, the stars—makes up just 15% of the mass in the universe. The ...

The new study led by Prof Tomonori Totani of the University of Tokyo analysed Fermi telescope observations of the Milky Way's ...

In data from a NASA space telescope over 17 years old, an astronomer has allegedly found direct traces of the enigmatic dark matter for the first time.

For nearly a century, astronomers have been convinced that most of the universe is made of something we can’t see. Now, fresh ...

The universe occasionally produces a huge surprise that proves physicists wrong, says Kip Thorne, who grew up in Logan, Utah, ...

Imagine biting into a crisp, garden-fresh salad and savoring juicy strawberries for dessert. But instead of your backyard, ...

In 1999, Belgian physicist Chris Van Den Broeck implemented a minor alteration to Alcubierre’s concept by shrinking the ...

A Star Trek–inspired idea by Miguel Alcubierre kicked off decades of theory and experiments as scientists pursue plausible ...

Lead author Neha Sharma emphasized the study’s significance, noting that “by studying their flickers, we can uncover how ...

I/ATLAS is the third confirmed interstellar object known to enter our Solar System, following ʻOumuamua and 2I/Borisov.

In the early universe, moments after the Big Bang and cosmic inflation, clusters of exotic, massive particles could have ...