Astronomer Vera Rubin, now honored on a U.S. quarter, transformed our understanding of the universe by uncovering powerful ...

All matter moves through space-time at the universal constant— the speed of light— but this speed is shared between motion in space and the flow of time. Objects don’t speed up beyond light speed; ...

First and perhaps most perplexingly, researchers remain unsure about what exactly dark matter is. Originally, some scientists ...

A new study suggests they may have a ghostly shadow—trailing dark matter spirals hovering above and below them. A team of ...

Dark stars were first suggested in 2007, but now observations with the James Webb Space Telescope hint that we may have ...

Astronomers have found a rare form of methanol, a type of alcohol, in a planet-forming disk, providing a critical step in understanding how life beyond Earth may form. This result reveals vital ...

Two Clark County teachers are among an elite group of STEM educators nominated for a national award honoring K-12 math and science teachers.

(Photo by Spencer Coppage for Virginia Tech) Huber, who is building a new lab to test dark matter theories, has been awarded several million dollars from the National Science Foundation and ...

Two experiments, built to detect particles of dark matter, have caught initial glimpses ... She is a two-time winner of the D.C. Science Writers’ Association Newsbrief award and a winner of ...

Paper I: Methodology overview and discovery of a gas-dark matter velocity decoupling in the MACS J0018.5+1626 merger," was funded by the National Science Foundation, the Wallace L. W. Sargent ...

Ultrafine dark matter, millions of times lighter than electrons, could flow through the cosmos in waves. We might just have an easy way to check for tiny interactions between this dark matter and ...

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