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In an article published in Physical Review Letters on Thursday, scientists carried out an innovative study testing the ...

Two Indian physicists have theoretically proposed a path-breaking idea which could fundamentally change the current view about the contents of the universe and potentially provide ways to probe a holy ...

New research suggests that dark energy isn't needed to explain the acceleration in the expansion of the universe — instead ...

The vast majority of cosmologists believe all of these phenomena can be explained through the presence of dark matter, a ...

Across cosmic history, powerful forces have acted on matter, reshaping the universe into an increasingly complex web of ...

Explore 9 cosmic mysteries, from galaxy formation to dark energy, the Big Bang, and life beyond Earth. Discover the ...

Researchers hypothesize a fifth force of nature that could explain the intricate relationship between dark matter and dark energy, suggesting a revolutionary expansion of the Standard Model of physics ...

A rare group of aligned, star-birthing dwarf galaxies resemble a cosmic string of pearls. Astronomers have discovered a rare ...

At Argonne National Laboratory, scientists have leveraged the Frontier supercomputer to create an unprecedented simulation of ...