"Fast radio bursts shine through the fog of the intergalactic medium, and by precisely measuring how the light slows down, we ...

Bright flashes of enigmatic radio waves have helped illuminate some of the missing matter in the universe, astronomers say in ...

The universe has two kinds of matter. There is invisible dark matter, known only because of its gravitational effects on a ...

"If we see the lampshade effect in action, it will tell us about what dark matter could be, which is exciting." ...

Decades ago, astronomers estimated that “ordinary” matter (basically everything that isn’t dark matter or dark energy) makes ...

A new landmark study has pinpointed the location of the universe's "missing" matter, and detected the most distant fast radio ...

A USC-led research team has created a series of supercomputer-simulated twins of our Milky Way galaxy—which could help ...

Using fast radio bursts, astronomers have finally located the universe’s missing ordinary matter across billions of ...

Empty spaces in the dark only appear to be complete voids. Even intergalactic space (in the absence of dust particles) has a ...