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Physicists have determined that most of the universe is dark matter -- invisible to us but affecting the universe anyway.

A new study casts doubt on the universe’s accelerating expansion, suggesting dark energy might be weakening over time.

Although these findings from JWST are yet to be confirmed, they mark the closest astronomers have come to locating the ...

Observations with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have revealed the explosive death of a ...

The observations are the earliest yet of a supernova, revealing in detail the moment that the shockwave obliterated the star.

More than 13 billion years ago, before planets, before even most of the heavier elements that make them, the first stars ignited in the universe. They were immense, blazing hydrogen and helium spheres ...

Astronomers find an explanation for the fastest stars in the galaxy while uncovering a new mechanism for a supernova explosion. Credit: Technion illustration Astronomers call a special kind of ...