Cosmologist Katie Mack breaks down what the latest findings about dark energy mean for our universe’s future. Either way, it ...

Gravity pulls us to earth, a lesson you learn viscerally the first time you fall. Isaac Newton described gravity as a ...

The physics & astronomy professor joins an international team in detecting solar neutrinos, advancing search for elusive dark ...

A collaboration of US-based researchers has turned to the PROSPECT-I detector at ORNL in search of the elusive sterile ...

Astronomers have long been puzzled by two strange phenomena at the heart of our galaxy. First, the gas in the central ...

Last month, a press release announced groundbreaking findings from the Dark Energy Spectroscopy Instrument (DESI), which is installed on the Mayall Telescope in Arizona. This vast survey, containing ...

Dark oxygen was first discovered in 2015, but what is it? Learn how a deep-sea discovery could rewrite our understanding of ...

Coronal holes are dark regions on the Sun seen in extreme ultraviolet and X-ray images. These areas have lower density and ...

For decades, astronomers have known something didn’t add up in our universe. The amount of “normal” matter—stars, gas, and ...

The island of Puerto Rico is suffering another islandwide power outage, just months after a dayslong blackout on New Year's ...

The power outage began shortly before 1 p.m. local time, and all of the company’s 1.4 million customers were left without ...

If dark matter is creating positrons in the CMZ, those particles will eventually slow down and eventually annihilate with ...