Dark energy is still one of the greatest cosmic mysteries. For all the time, money and telescopes that humanity has used to ...

As the Dark Energy Survey (DES) releases its final results, we caught up with two physicists who've been involved in the ...

Dark matter is a mysterious substance that glues galaxies together. This map from the James Webb Space Telescope could help ...

Once disregarded as “junk DNA,” scientists now know that this molecular dark matter is crucial for determining gene activity ...

High-resolution images may help scientists understand the ‘gravitational scaffolding’ upon which the universe is built ...

What do "I Got Rhythm," "The Maltese Falcon," and "The Little Engine That Could" have in common? They all went into the public domain this year ...

First and perhaps most perplexingly, researchers remain unsure about what exactly dark matter is. Originally, some scientists ...

Astronomers puzzled out minuscule distortions in images of faraway galaxies taken by JWST in order to chart the invisible ...

A new high-resolution map of distant galaxies may help scientists understand the mysterious dark matter holding the universe ...

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When materials become just one atom thick, melting no longer follows the familiar rules. Instead of jumping straight from solid to liquid, an unusual in-between state emerges, where atomic positions ...