When Rutgers theoretical astrophysicist Charles Keeton first saw an unusual picture shared by his colleague, he was intrigued ...

Science is a story of coming up with theories then doing our best to disprove them. That is especially true for theories on a ...

Images and measurements from NASA’s Perseverance rover indicate that recently identified rocks in Jezero Crater are composed of mudstones containing organic carbon. According to a study published in ...

Dark energy —the term used to describe whatever is causing the universe to expand at an increasing rate—is one of the universe's greatest mysteries ...

Black holes are some of the most mysterious objects in the universe. For decades, physicists believed their explosive deaths ...

For more than two decades, astronomers have wrestled with one of the biggest mysteries in science: what is driving the ...

For all our telescopes and colliders, dark matter has remained an elusive ghost for the better part of a century. It ...

QROCODILE has set record-breaking sensitivity in the search for dark matter, detecting signals at energy levels once thought impossible. These results may be just the first step toward finally ...

A decade ago, the first gravitational waves confirmed that black holes collide. Telescopes soon revealed shadows of giants ...

Astronomers first thought these red dots were ancient galaxies. They appeared unusually mature for their early universe age.