Jee compared dark matter to crystal-clear water in a pond, with pebbles as the galaxies. “You cannot see the water unless there is wind, which causes ripples. Those ripples distort the shapes of the ...

The 10-year survey is the primary mission of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, located on a mountaintop at the edge of Chile’s ...

The universe is a happening place—full of exploding stars, erupting black holes, zipping asteroids, and much more. The Rubin Observatory released its first images last week, and they’re stunning—vast, ...

SISSA will host an event as part of the PhD for Innovation programme, in the Big Meeting Room (7th floor).The guest speaker will be Xiaochuan (Giovanni) Ge, a SISSA alumnus and now Vice President of ...

The Defense Department will still maintain the satellite program will cease sharing the imagery with NOAA and NASA.

Mathematical models indicate that the worst-case scenario of the Trump administration’s HIV-related cuts could result in 3 ...

Critics have suggested that the Mexican flag in this context shows loyalty to a foreign country rather than the United States ...

A new hypothesis called the “quantum memory matrix” could solve long-standing physics questions, including the Black Hole ...

Inspired by superconductivity, a strange new theory that seeks to explain dark matter might explain dark energy, too ...

In the natural world, many things come in mirror-image pairs. Your left and right hands are a perfect example—they look alike ...

Vacuum is often thought of as empty, but in fact it is teeming with fleeting energy fluctuations—virtual photons popping in ...

For decades, scientists have been searching for the universe's elusive "missing matter," and now they say they finally found ...