It’s always amazing, and more than a little humbling, when the universe reminds us that our “common sense” is provincial, falling apart on cosmic scales. If you’re on the surface of Earth—and I’m ...

Beyond numbers and scales, this video reflects on what it means to exist inside such immensity. It shows how, despite our ...

Velocity streamlines within the reconstructed volume, with colored envelopes associated with the prominent nearby basins of attraction. The map and streamlines have been cropped to the region covered ...

From galaxies to the Sun, new research explains how turbulent motion can produce large-scale magnetic fields that remain ...

Two fresh ideas are giving scientists new ways to think about how the universe’s hidden mass came to be. Together, they paint a richer picture of dark matter’s origins and how we might still discover ...

UC Santa Cruz physicist Stefano Profumo has put forward two imaginative but scientifically grounded theories that may help solve one of the biggest mysteries in physics: the origin of dark matter. In ...

Astronomers have identified a vast, twisting chain of galaxies that appears to be rotating as a single structure, a kind of cosmic tornado that stretches across tens of millions of light years. If ...

A new theory claims dark matter and dark energy don’t exist — they’re just side effects of the universe’s changing forces. By rethinking gravity and cosmic timelines, it could rewrite our ...