Physicists show knotted cosmic strings may have dominated the early universe before collapsing to create matter—a theory ...

A mathematical investigation of galactic data suggests elusive dark matter is confined to the rules of gravity.

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The study seeks to explain the presence of dark matter using a WED model. The scientists studied fermion masses, which they believe could be communicated into the fifth dimension through portals, ...

ALMA reveals that gravity reorients magnetic fields in 17 young clusters, aligning them as gas collapses and accelerating ...

Scientists have recently made a groundbreaking discovery, detecting gravitational waves from the formation of two newborn ...

Observations show the disk of our galaxy is not flat but warped and waving. Astronomers are still working out the reasons why ...

Is there anything more dramatic than an exploding star? More than just extraordinarily bright, energetic events that can ...

A team of astrophysicists has unveiled how colossal stars thousands of times more massive than the Sun shaped the earliest ...

An international team led by ICREA researcher Mark Gieles, from the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of ...

First, a quick overview: the Milky Way is classified as a disk galaxy, with a broad circular collection of stars, gas and ...

A handful of extremely massive stars, each heavier than 1,000 Suns, may have sculpted the chemistry of the oldest star ...