Dark matter makes up 85% of the universe, but researchers, including Vera Rubin herself, historically have had a hard time ...

Scientists think they found evidence of weird ancient stars called "dark stars" that are powered by dark matter instead of ...

Astronomers have uncovered the most promising evidence yet for the existence of dark stars—giant cosmic objects powered by ...

The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible,” Albert Einstein once pondered. But even as ...

This lifespan began roughly 4.6 billion years ago, and will continue for about another 4.5 - 5.5 billion years, when it will deplete its supply of hydrogen, helium, and collapse into a white dwarf.

Dr. Caitlin Casey, an observational astronomer, has recently joined the physics department at UC Santa Barbara. She co-leads the C.O.S.M.O.S. collaboration — a project distinguished by its deep ...

Astronomers have turned the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) into a time machine to peer back in cosmic ...