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

Learn what a black hole is, how it forms, and how astronomers detect it. Understand the science behind black holes and their ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Long ago, before galaxies formed into shapes we are familiar with today and before planets formed, the earliest stars ignited ...

In ‘Lux,’ the singer and songwriter journeys toward spirituality through the lives of different women who inhabit the symbolic worlds of religions such as Catholicism and Islam. In this in-depth ...