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NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope may have detected the first direct evidence for dark matter, according to new research ...

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 ...

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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 ...

A chance discovery by a NASA rover on Mars shows that the red planet has a form of lightning, which researchers had suspected ...

Although a recently discovered species overlapped with the famous Lucy, and appears less evolved in many ways, it also shows ...

More than 100 years after its existence was predicted, scientists report that they have, for the first time, seen dark matter ...

Michigan State University astrophysicists are closing in on one of space science’s biggest mysteries: where the galaxy’s most ...