A new look at radio maps of the sky shows a pronounced tilt, called a dipole, that astronomers are still unable to explain ...

According to a new Physical Review Letters study, black holes could help solve the dark matter mystery. The shadowy regions ...

With the aid of a multinational network of telescopes, scientists have been able to detect the lowest-mass dark object ever ...

According to Alfred Nobel's will, the Nobel Prize in Physics was to go to "the person who shall have made the most important ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has dramatically transformed the field of astronomy since its launch, precipitating groundbreaking discoveries that have reshaped our understanding of the ...

Sometimes, the simplest explanation is the best one," Professor Gupta said. "Maybe the universe’s biggest secrets are just ...

Some of astronomy’s biggest breakthroughs—from planets to cosmic signals—were found by accident while scientists were looking ...

Abstract: In this study, a broadband microwave power detector based on an energy-harvesting metasurface is proposed, enabling efficient detection of incident microwave power density via ...

Dark energy—the term used to describe whatever is causing the universe to expand at an increasing rate—is one of the universe’s greatest mysteries. The most widely accepted theory currently suggests ...

At the heart of nearly every galaxy lurks a cosmic giant: a supermassive black hole. These mysterious objects, millions to billions of times more massive than our Sun, exert such powerful gravity that ...

Abstract: The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) data analysis and the map-making process rely heavily on the use of spherical harmonics. For suitable pixelizations of the sphere, the (forward and ...