Astronomers have observed a star wobbling in its orbit around a ravenous supermassive black hole that is ripping it apart and ...

Even worse, the orbit of Mars is elliptical (think of a slight oval rather than a perfect circle), which means that sometimes ...

Clocks on Mars tick faster by about 477 microseconds each Earth day, a new study suggests. This difference is significantly ...

Scientists have observed the largest-known rotating structure in the cosmos - a gargantuan thread-like assemblage of hundreds ...

Before Einstein, before Bohr, there was a Jesuit priest with a telescope and a startlingly modern vision of the universe.

Digital archive and viralised wounds Imagine two situations. First, in a pala gaan or bichar gaan, a person utters a ...

The shelf life of a sunscreen, the stability of mayonnaise, the effectiveness of a drug; these all depend on what is ...

A team of astronomers say they may have detected dark matter, the invisible substance thought to make up over 85 percent of all matter in the universe, for the first time in history. The claim is ...

NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, which studies high-energy wavelengths of light known as gamma-rays, spotted emissions in the center of the Milky Way that may be associated with particles ...

Nov. 26 (UPI) --More than 100 years after its existence was predicted, scientists report that they have, for the first time, seen dark matter. Scientists have been able to indirectly observe dark ...

Dark matter has long been the universe’s most profound ghost, its existence confirmed only by the gravitational havoc it wreaks on visible galaxies. Now, a team from the University of Tokyo suggests ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures the magnificent starry population of the Coma Cluster of galaxies, one of the densest known galaxy collections in the universe — and where the effect of dark ...