In the Big Bend region, a portal to the early universe is enabled by the largest dark-sky reserve on Earth. The Hobby-Eberly Telescope at the McDonald Observatory in Fort Davis, Texas, was used to ...

The big-idea explorers at Aperture decode dark energy and its mysterious role in stretching the universe beyond imagination.

A new type of self-interacting dark matter could provide solutions to three very different cosmic puzzles, new research ...

Cyclic cosmology, or the big bounce, is the idea that the universe will eventually crunch back together and then go through another big bang. Columnist Leah Crane finds that, appropriately, it’s comin ...

Something invisible holds the universe intact. It outweighs everything you can see—every star, every gas cloud, every ...

HVS1, which may be an old metal-poor hypervelocity star of galactic center origin. The finding, based on the data from the ...

Australia's regions used to be the very definition of the grid’s dark side: expensive diesel, fragile long lines, limited ...

Researchers use DESI’s huge 3D map to study dark energy. Earth is at the center of this map, and every point is a galaxy. Credit: DESI collaboration and KPNO ...

Our dwindling night skies and expanding light pollution is slowly impacting plants, animals and humans in significant ways.

Ahead of the election, the Southern California News Group compiled a list of questions to pose to the candidates vying to ...

There’s no greater shame than hurting your parents,” MAFS groom Chris Nield admitted as he came clean about what he’d been hiding.

After NASA's glory days of putting astronauts on the moon in the 1960s and '70s, its crew stayed closer to home. That all changed earlier this month with the Artemis II mission, and few things excite ...