Physicists are increasingly entertaining a radical possibility: our familiar universe of three dimensions of space and one of ...

The accelerating expansion of the universe is usually explained by an invisible force known as dark energy. But a new study ...

Our universe plays by certain rules, which originate from different branches of physics. But sometimes the rules seem ...

Astronomers announced the discovery of a starless cloud of hydrogen gas, a pristine relic of the cosmos that is almost as old ...

A newly discovered celestial object may be a starless cloud that could change how astronomers understand dark matter.

Nearly everything in the universe is made of mysterious dark matter and dark energy, yet we can’t see either of them directly ...

Scientists build ultra-sensitive detectors to study dark matter and dark energy, which make up most of the universe but remain unseen and poorly understood ...

The particle in question, known as a sterile neutrino, was supposed to only interact with gravity and have zero interactions ...

But machinery used on the moon must function in low gravity, a vacuum and amid abrasive lunar dust. It must also survive the two-week lunar night of electronics-killing temperatures that plunge to ...

The rapid acceleration of the universe’s expansion continues to challenge our understanding of fundamental physics. Why the ...

Advanced quantum detectors designed at Texas A&M University are reinventing the search for dark matter, an unseen force that ...

Quantum theory and Einstein's theory of general relativity are two of the greatest successes in modern physics. Each works ...