In addition, astrophysical observations had revealed that occasionally, white dwarfs would cool off way faster than expected.

A mysterious excess of far-ultraviolet light seen across the Milky Way could come from the annihilation of clumpy dark matter ...

Astrophysicists are turning the universe’s dying stars into laboratories for one of physics’ most elusive ideas, the axion.

With contributions from Brown faculty and students, the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment analyzed the largest dataset ever collected by a dark matter detector, and the results provide the strongest constraints ...

The FLAMINGO super simulation maps the universe from its earliest moments but finds galaxies cluster less than cosmological ...

But the Big Bang theory predicts that about 5% of the universe's contents should be atoms made of protons, neutrons and ...

Both boson stars and Q-balls, which live under the more general heading of exotic astrophysical dark objects (EADOs), are ...

Normal matter – which makes up everything we see and touch – isn’t the only type of matter present in the universe.

By studying faint distortions in galaxy shapes across a vast region of sky, scientists probed the hidden structure of the universe. In the standard picture of the universe, nearly everything is hidden ...

Scientists still struggle to understand consciousness, aging, memory formation and why humans hiccup or yawn, revealing a ...

In the search to understand how the universe came to be, a new theory is rewriting the script. Instead of one massive, fiery birth like the Big Bang, this idea suggests the cosmos has been growing in ...

The universe is made up of three components: normal or visible matter (5%), dark matter (27%), and dark energy (68%). NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center From stars and galaxies to the shoes on your ...