In addition, astrophysical observations had revealed that occasionally, white dwarfs would cool off way faster than expected.

Astrophysicists are turning the universe’s dying stars into laboratories for one of physics’ most elusive ideas, the axion.

A new theoretical study suggests fusion reactors could do more than generate energy, they might also produce particles linked to dark matter. Researchers at the University of Cincinnati say they have ...

Scientists using the James Webb telescope observed a distant exoplanet with an atmosphere of soot and diamonds, challenging all explanations.

In recent years, astronomers have become increasingly interested in a theoretical particle known as the axion, which was ...

Both boson stars and Q-balls, which live under the more general heading of exotic astrophysical dark objects (EADOs), are ...

The universe doesn’t revolve around Kitt Peak, but the observatory southwest of Tucson is at the center of what could be the biggest breakthrough in the study of the cosmos in decades. Using an ...

A new theory of "dark photons" attempted to explain a centuries-old experiment in a new way this year, in an effort to change ...

Astronomers have decoded the hidden past of a distant red giant star by listening to tiny vibrations in its light, revealing ...

Stranger Things season 5 part 2 was certainly putting the science in science fiction. The latest batch of episodes does a lot of heavy lifting in explaining the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was involved in yet another first discovery recently available in pre-print form on ...

Using Georgia State’s CHARA Array, an international team of scientists has uncovered unexpected complexity in how stars ...