Scientists are revolutionizing our understanding of the universe’s most mysterious component: dark matter, the invisible ...

UCT astrophysicists rediscovery stimulates bright young ones to take more interest in studying science, according to the ...

Scientists have created over a million simulated cosmic images using the power of supercomputers to anticipate the capabilities of NASA’s upcoming Roman Space Telescope. These synthetic images allow ...

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are one of the greater mysteries facing astronomers today, rivaled only by gravitational waves (GWs) ...

One of the most notable baby stars in the galaxy, T Tauri, could be about to vanish from sight for decades as a thick, ...

The project, called OpenUniverse, relied on the now-retired Theta supercomputer at the DOE’s (Department of Energy’s) Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois. The supercomputer accomplished a process ...

Like stretch marks left on skin that expanded too quickly or cracks embedded in freezing ice, cosmic strings are artifacts of ...

Measuring distances across the universe is much more challenging than measuring distances on Earth. Is a brighter star closer ...