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The mysterious glow can’t easily be explained, leading a University of Tokyo researcher to argue it could be humanity’s first ...

A team of Japanese astronomers may have detected the first-ever direct signature of dark matter using NASA's Fermi gamma-ray space telescope. The team found a unique 20 GeV gamma-ray glow near the ...

Fr. Gabriele Gionti, S.J., and Fr. Matteo Galaverni continue to produce new mathematical insights into Albert Einstein’s ...

The new space station crew includes American Chris Williams, who holds a Ph.D. in astronomy and is a board-certified medical ...

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

Scientists may have finally seen dark matter, uncovering a gamma-ray signal that could reveal the universe’s most mysterious ...

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

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

We can't see dark matter directly, so studying it pushes the boundaries of our creativity as scientists. How exciting, says ...

What are the physics of life? That is more than just a philosophical question—it has practical implications for our search ...

The geometry of space, the setting in which physical laws operate, may hold clues to some of the biggest unanswered questions in fundamental physics. The underlying structure of spacetime itself could ...