The Event Horizon Telescope captured the first image of the Milky Way galaxy's supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* — our ...

Dark matter, which makes up about 85% of the universe's matter, remains invisible to modern instruments. However, a new ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has pushed the cosmic frontier to a point where astronomers are now talking seriously about ...

Dark matter is theorized to make up approximately 27% of the universe, with ordinary matter — the stars, planets, and everyday objects we encounter — accounting for merely 5%. The remainder consists ...

Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb bets $1000 against skeptic Michael Shermer that humanity will confirm alien technology by 2030.

In 1999, Belgian physicist Chris Van Den Broeck implemented a minor alteration to Alcubierre’s concept by shrinking the ...

A Star Trek–inspired idea by Miguel Alcubierre kicked off decades of theory and experiments as scientists pursue plausible ...

Astronomers from the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA) have uncovered the turbulent past of a distant red ...

Astronomers have uncovered clues to a red giant’s chaotic past by detecting subtle stellar vibrations that hint at a long-ago collision and an unexpectedly rapid spin. Astronomers at the (IfA) have pi ...

For nearly a century, astronomers have been convinced that most of the universe is made of something we can’t see. Now, fresh ...