The standard explanation has been dark energy, an invisible force added into the equations to make the math work. But now, an ...

The central square image, taken with the MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, shows shock waves around the dead ...

Astronomers with Hubble have spotted “Cloud‑9”, a ghostly, starless cloud of dark matter and hydrogen, a fossil relic from ...

This artist’s rendering illustrates a precessing jet erupting from the supermassive black hole at the center of galaxy VV ...

This breakthrough could guide the breeding of smarter crops, plants that know when to open or close their pores, using water ...

Neutrinos and dark matter are two mysterious parts of the Universe. Scientists don’t fully understand them yet, but they are ...

This artist’s concept depicts a smaller white dwarf star pulling material from a larger star, right, into an accretion disk.

Earlier research from Amato’s lab found that gut microbes from primates with larger brains produce more energy when ...

Artist’s impression of a forming galaxy cluster in the early universe: radio jets from active galaxies are embedded in a hot ...

Coral reefs are often described as biodiversity hotspots, but this study reframes them as potent regulators of the ocean’s ...

Cremation is unusual in the archaeological record before the mid-Holocene, especially among hunter-gatherers. Pyres demand ...

Alex Marson of Gladstone and his collaborators at Stanford University developed a genomic mapping technique that helps close ...