"If we see the lampshade effect in action, it will tell us about what dark matter could be, which is exciting." ...

Bright flashes of enigmatic radio waves have helped illuminate some of the missing matter in the universe, astronomers say in ...

The universe has two kinds of matter. There is invisible dark matter, known only because of its gravitational effects on a ...

Decades ago, astronomers estimated that “ordinary” matter (basically everything that isn’t dark matter or dark energy) makes ...

A USC-led research team has created a series of supercomputer-simulated twins of our Milky Way galaxy—which could help ...

Using fast radio bursts, astronomers have finally located the universe’s missing ordinary matter across billions of ...

Very massive stars (VMSs), which typically have masses about 100 times that of our own sun, are critical components in our understanding of the formation of important astronomical structures like ...