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

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

A Japanese astronomer believes he has finally captured the first direct glimpse of dark matter, a discovery that, if confirmed, could obviously reshape the entire field of physics.

Research published Tuesday by a Japanese astrophysicist says gamma rays may have been generated by the collision of dark ...

A researcher identified gamma ray emissions that appear to have originated from dark matter, but other physicists still ...

Imagine watching a massive star that's been burning steadily for millions of years suddenly dim, fluctuate, and then vanish ...

The sighting of a bright red sphere racing out of our galaxy at extreme speed has handed NASA one of its strangest puzzles in ...

Scientists traced the Moon's parent planet Theia to the inner Solar System, solving a 4.5-billion-year mystery.

In an advance that could mark a turning point in the understanding of the universe, a research team from the University of ...

MIT astronomers utilized a space-based X-ray telescope to delineate critical features within a star system’s innermost region ...

Dark matter is theorized to make up approximately 27% of the universe, with ordinary matter — the stars, planets, and everyday objects we encounter — accounting for merely 5%. The remainder consists ...

Simulating a billion years using previous best-resolution simulations would take almost 36 years of real computing time.