In the leading model of cosmology, most of the universe is invisible: a combined 95% is made of dark matter and dark energy.

The filament of matter stretches 50 million light-years, and contains a row of galaxies 5.5 million light-years long that are ...

A JetBlue flight had to make an emergency landing in Florida after suddenly losing altitude while en route from Mexico to New ...

How the world of the smallest particles is structured, what is known about fundamental forces, and what particles have to do ...

Sebastian Mizera just joined the physics department as an assistant professor, researching quantum field theory.

"Precision in these measurements is critical, as even subtle discrepancies could signal deviations from the model — ...

Scientists have taken a major step toward solving a long-standing mystery in particle physics, by finding no sign of the ...

For the first time, astronomers say they may have caught dark matter in the act, not through its gravitational pull but by ...

Nearly a century after astronomers first proposed dark matter to explain the strange motions of galaxies, scientists may finally be catching a glimpse of it. A University of Tokyo researcher analyzing ...

A single green laser, a glass bead smaller than a bacterium and a lab in Austria are helping you see lightning in a new way.