Scientists call this state of matter a quark-gluon plasma. This state of matter existed during the first fraction of a second ...

A new study explains how some supernovae are particularly dazzling—the glow from a magnetic, spinning ball of neutrons called a magnetar. An assist from Einstein is what settled the case ...

Using the 10-meter Hobby-Eberly Telescope in the US, astronomers have detected a subtle, hidden glow from 9 to 11 billion ...

Just when you thought Stranger Things had clocked out for good, Netflix gave us something else to return to the horrors of the Upside Down.

Astronomers have just identified what appears to be a cosmic anomaly: a faint galaxy with so few visible stars that, according to calculations, as much as 99.9 percent of its mass is dark matter. The ...

What happens to soft matter when gravity disappears? To answer this, UvA physicists launched a fluid dynamics experiment on a sounding rocket. The suborbital rocket reached an altitude of 267 km ...

A huge clump of dark matter could be sitting on our galactic doorstep. Scientists found evidence of an invisible, massive nugget in the galactic neighborhood of the sun. The suspected clod of dark ...

Scientists are shining a brighter light on dark matter thanks to a new high-resolution map, unveiling the invisible material that shapes everything we see. Using James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) ...

A new high-resolution map of distant galaxies may finally help scientists understand a mysterious substance that binds the universe together. Taken by Nasa’s James Webb Space Telescope, the latest ...

Dark matter is a mysterious substance that glues galaxies together. This map from the James Webb Space Telescope could help scientists finally figure out what it is. Using data from the James Webb ...

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