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Have scientists finally detected dark matter? - video

For decades physicists have been puzzling over the enigma of dark matter. We think it makes up 85% of the matter in the universe, but the mysterious substance…

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Scientists Discover the 7 Stages a Meteoroid Goes Through Before Hitting Earth

An analysis of 75 meteorite falls identified seven distinct processes that occur as space rocks melt, break apart, and slow down before reaching the ground.

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Something Strange Just Happened With the World's Largest Dark Matter Detector

Scientists with the LZ Dark Matter Experiment say they've detected an unprecedented subatomic interaction with their dark matter detector.

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Galaxies May Be Mimicking the Dark Matter Signals Astronomers Have Been Hunting

Galaxies can create many of the same stellar stream distortions that astronomers have looked to as possible signs of dark matter.

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Scientists detect the most compelling indication of dark matter to date

The discovery might pave the way for answering one of the biggest unresolved questions about our universe

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Scientists Discover How Extraterrestrial Life Could Thrive In the Harsh Acidic Clouds Surrounding Venus

A new theoretical kind of extraterrestrial life could survive the harsh acid clouds of Venus, according to MIT researchers.

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JWST Finds Giant Planets Face a Cosmic Race Against Time

JWST observations of dozens of young, Sun-like stars suggest that the forces stripping gas from planet-forming disks evolve as the systems mature.

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NASA's Powerful New Space Telescope, Just Cleared for Launch, Was Developed by an Intelligence Agency to "Spy on America's Adversaries"

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope started as a National Reconnaissance Office spy satellite and had to be heavily modified.

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New computer simulations might show us where dark matter is hiding

Mysterious material makes up most of the universe – but we don’t know where or what it is

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NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Could Soon Unravel the Greatest Mysteries of the Cosmos—Here’s What to Expect

This week, NASA is preparing to launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, its next flagship space observatory.

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Rocket Lab Unveils 'GHOST,' a Game-Changing New Portable Launch System That Can Carry Payloads to Orbit from Anywhere on Earth

Private space launch services company Rocket Lab has unveiled its GHOST system capable of supporting rocket launches anywhere in the world.

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Is this why close encounters with intelligent aliens have so far eluded us? | Letters

Letters: Readers offer their explanations for the absence of hard evidence for extraterrestrial civilisations, in response to an article by Adam Kirsch

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Have We Found Alien Life? Here’s What Scientists Really Think

Claims about possible extraterrestrial life on K2-18b and Mars generated worldwide excitement, but a survey of hundreds of astrobiologists found that most experts remained cautious rather than convinced.

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JWST Finds a Galaxy Cluster That Shouldn’t Be This Mature So Early in the Universe

New observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope deepen the mystery of a young but unexpectedly mature galaxy cluster in the early universe that challenges leading ideas about…

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Something Mysterious Just Passed Between Earth and a Distant Star

A mysterious object dubbed Phoebe may be a primordial black hole from the early universe, detected only because it briefly magnified the light of a distant star.

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Astronomers Discover a Ghostly River of Stars That Could Reveal Dark Matter

A ghostly ribbon of stars winding around a faint galaxy 115 million light-years away is giving astronomers a rare new way to trace one of the universe’s most…

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Newly Discovered Object is So Close to the Milky Way’s Central Black Hole it’s Experiencing Warped Spacetime

Astronomers have spotted an object so close to the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way its experiencing warped spacetime.

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Scientists Propose a New Test for Detecting Alien Life Unlike Anything on Earth

Scientists propose a universal test that could detect alien life without assuming it resembles any biology found here on Earth.

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Rare Meteorite From New Jersey Roof Strike Offers New Clues to the Origins of Life

A meteorite that crashed through a New Jersey home reveals ancient asteroid chemistry that may offer clues to the origins of life on Earth.

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SETI Researchers Are Expanding the Search Beyond the 'Water Hole'

Astronomers searching for extraterrestrial intelligence have traditionally focused on a specific, narrow band of the radio spectrum.