About 120 students from across the world are in West Virginia for the annual National Youth Science Camp.The 30-day camp in Pocahontas County includes lectures and ...

Our best models of the cosmos don't add up — but that could change if the universe is actually made of a viscous 'fluid,' a ...

Donald G. York, an astronomer with the University of Chicago who helped revolutionize the field as a co-founder of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and made pioneering contributions to the study of the ...

New research explores how dark stars, powered by dark matter, could account for puzzling observations from the early universe ...

The mystery in question revolves around the objects known as little red dots. The rest of this article is behind a paywall.

Sri Lankan American scientist vows to empower ‘brilliant minds’ at the elite Pasadena university amid research funding cuts ...

If dark stars existed, they would have been capable of forming in the universe before ordinary stars could have formed. When ...

Because the moon has less gravity than Earth does, time passes slightly differently there. This effect was first predicted by ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.

The way in which time progresses on the Moon is becoming increasingly relevant as both countries push toward their next lunar ...

Overlay of the infrared emission (black and white) with the radio emission (colour). The dark, low-mass object is located at ...

Betelgeuse is the star that everybody can't wait to see blow up, preferably sooner rather than later. That's because it's a ...