Researchers, in a recent Physical Review Letters paper, introduce a new mechanism that may finally allow ultralight dark ...

Movies like The Mist and Annihilation tap into cosmic horror, a subgenre that taps into fears beyond human comprehension.

Aug. 19—Themed to space and science fiction, the National Museum of the US Air Force will soon host "After Dark: Cosmic Camp," and it's for people 21 and older. The event will highlight the real ...

For years, astronomers have been searching for a mysterious ninth planet lurking in the dark outer reaches of our solar ...

Nowadays, the dark of night is interspersed with the light of stars. But before the stars were born, did light shine at the ...

The nature of dark matter has confounded scientists for decades, but a new development could help resolve this mystery within the next 15 years. Researchers have developed an "axion quasiparticle ...

A powerful new telescope will usher in a new era of cosmic discovery, but in a political climate vastly different from when ...

From a mountaintop in Chile, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has taken the first public images of the cosmos, which represent ...

Millions of stars and galaxies fill a dreamy cosmic landscape in the first-ever images released from a new astronomical observatory with the largest digital camera in the world ...

The end of the cosmic dark ages and the start of cosmic dawn mark the time when the universe as we know it began to take shape. We can’t see back to this cosmic era.

On what might have been the proudest day of Jack Burns’s long career in astronomy, he was sitting on a beach. Orbital dynamics and launch schedules wait for no one, and Burns couldn’t move his ...

The nature of dark matter has confounded scientists for decades, but a new development could help resolve this mystery within the next 15 years. Researchers have developed an "axion quasiparticle ...