Dark matter and its impact on cosmology have puzzled physicists for nearly a century. At Perimeter Institute, two researchers ...

Hints that dark matter might be destroying itself have flickered through astronomical data for more than a decade, but a new ...

A provocative theory is gaining new support today. Scientists suggest atom-sized black holes may move through Earth. These ...

The universe occasionally produces a huge surprise that proves physicists wrong, says Kip Thorne, who grew up in Logan, Utah, ...

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

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

Dark matter, the invisible glue that outweighs normal matter in the cosmos, is starting to look less like a passive backdrop ...

A tiny black hole zipping through your body sounds like the kind of death dreamed up by a pulp-era sci-fi writer. Which, ...

MIT astronomers utilized a space-based X-ray telescope to delineate critical features within a star system’s innermost region ...

In the dense environment of the early universe, dark matter particles would collide with, and annihilate, each other, releasing energy in the process. This energy could heat the hydrogen and helium ...

Based on these initial findings, the team further developed extremely high-resolution simulations called "shock-tubes." ...

New simulations reveal how galaxy cluster collisions create ghostly radio relics. Turbulence and shock compression amplify ...