Dark matter affects how stars move within galaxies, how galaxies build up over time, and how everything in the universe is held together—but no existing tool has directly detected it. While dark ...

Small telescopes in Chile are first on Earth to cut through the cosmic noise, peering back more than 13 billion years to the ...

Astronomers have pulled off an unprecedented feat: detecting ultra-faint light from the Big Bang using ground-based ...

"Using the new common signal, we can determine how much of what we're seeing is cosmic glare from light bouncing off the hood ...

A planetary system described as abnormal, chaotic, and strange by researchers has come into clearer view with NASA's James ...

For the first time, astronomers have used a ground-based telescope to observe polarized microwave light from the universe's ...

This might sound like an obvious thing for a professional stargazer to say. But astrophysicist Federica Bianco was reacting ...

Author and founder of SAY Detroit, Mitch Albom, joined the Nine to talk about EAT Detroit and it success in raising money to ...

New images of a young star, 2MASSJ1612, could have captured the birth of a giant gas planet larger than Jupiter.

This June, the Milky Way’s brilliant heart lights up the night as planets align and the solstice sun marks Earth’s celestial ...

Somewhere between Las Vegas’s neon chaos and Reno’s casino clamor lies a Nevada town that feels like it was plucked from another era, preserved in amber, and sprinkled with just enough quirk to make ...

Canadian scientists working on asteroid missions, exploring the universe through the James Webb Space Telescope or helping to ...