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A technique called interferometry can greatly magnify tiny objects on the sky, and is powerful enough to reveal the surfaces ...

As such, researchers at Cambridge University and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin have been studying tiny ancient fossils ...

A stream of unusually turbulent solar wind is currently sweeping past Earth, stirring up the kind of geomagnetic activity ...

In a groundbreaking development in the field of astronomy, scientists may have captured the first direct image of dark matter, nearly 100 years after it was first theorized. This invisible yet ...

If you hold a sheet of paper up to the light, it looks almost weightless — thin, soft, and easy to tear. Yet this simple ...

We can't see dark matter directly, so studying it pushes the boundaries of our creativity as scientists. How exciting, says ...

In the early 1930s, Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky observed galaxies in space moving faster than their mass should allow, ...

Nearly 100 years after it was first theorised, a scientist may have captured an image of dark matter for the first time.

A researcher identified gamma ray emissions that appear to have originated from dark matter, but other physicists still ...

If findings are correct, astronomer Tomonori Totani told Newsweek, this may finally solve "the greatest mystery in cosmology.

Gamma-ray image of the Milky Way halo. Gamma-ray intensity map excluding components other than the halo, spanning ...