It drives the movements of stars and galaxies, but dark matter is invisible. While it remains a colossal mystery, a study ...

The great Russian physicist and Nobel laureate Lev Landau once remarked that "cosmologists are often in error, but never in ...

After a six-week ocean voyage, a week spent waiting to offload, and another week trekking through the mountains, the first major component of the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) has arrived ...

"The singularity is the most mysterious and problematic part of a black hole. It's where our concepts of space and time ...

Financial markets around the world are reeling following President Donald Trump’s latest and most severe volley of tariffs, ...

U.S. stocks sold off on Friday, with investors jolted by hotter-than-expected inflation data, souring consumer sentiment and ...

Inflation in February unexpectedly slowed to 2.8% after a surprise jump to 3% in January, but expectations of a spike towards the end of the year are still lingering. The headline figure of ...

The Federal Reserve admits it badly misjudged the beginning of the inflation crisis, but officials hope they won’t make the same mistake again. President Donald Trump’s tariffs are about to ...

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