"Studying the rate at which galaxies formed lets us directly test our theories and, so far, we’re lining up with what general ...

Scientists working in an international collaboration have tracked how the structure of the cosmos has grown over the past 11 ...

The big cosmic joke of dark matter is that, although we can’t see it, it apparently makes up the vast majority of all the ...

Back in the 1960s, Frank Drake, an American astrophysicist and astrobiologist, proposed an equation aimed at estimating the ...

How do you weigh one of the largest objects in the entire universe? Very carefully, according to new research.

Giant filaments crisscross the universe, connecting galaxy clusters like superhighways between cities. But due to their ...

NASA is uncovering the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy, which make up most of the universe. What are these forces?

The researchers found that the emitted dark matter would ring space-time like a bell around the black hole. It would not be ...

Distant, ancient galaxies are giving scientists more hints that a mysterious force called dark energy may not be what they ...

Axions are the most likely candidate for enigmatic dark matter that dominates the universe. Astrophysicists are searching for evidence of high-mass axions produced during supernovae. Scientists ...

Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy Cosmin Ilie and Richard Casey ’24 have explored an idea put forth by two ...