Johns Hopkins researchers may have identified a compelling clue in the ongoing hunt to prove the existence of dark matter. A ...

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Using supercomputer simulations, a team of researchers investigated a mysterious source of gamma light coming from the Milky ...

There is a mysterious glow coming from the middle of our galaxy – and scientists say it could help solve one of the ...

New X-ray observations reveal Betelgeuse’s mysterious companion is not a collapsed stellar remnant but a young, Sun-like ...

Based on those findings, researchers have hypothesized that extra gamma ray energy within the center of the Milky Way could ...

UW-Milwaukee physics and astronomy assistant professor Lia Medeiros explains gravitational waves and the role UWM played in discovering them.

A research team led by Rice University physicist Frank Geurts has successfully measured the temperature of quark-gluon plasma ...

The first-ever detection of this rare form of water in a protoplanetary disk suggests that what we drink might have been ...

An ultra-fast flash from the galaxy M82 reveals what may have been a rare "extragalactic magnetar giant flare." ...

On July 2, 2025, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (Fermi-GBM) captured around three hours' worth of signals that appeared ...

This festive season, as we adorn ourselves with gold and silver, few realise that these precious metals were born in the fiery deaths of ancient stars - cosmic remnants scattered across the universe, ...