Dark matter halos are everywhere in the universe, yet no telescope can see them. These vast, invisible structures surround ...

We see countless stars and galaxies sparkling in the universe today, but how much matter is actually there? The question is simple enough — its answer, however, is turning out to be quite a ...

Sulfur is one of the most abundant elements in the universe. If you peer into a diffuse interstellar cloud, you find loads of it—about the amount expected based on fusion patterns in the stars it was ...

An international research team led by Chinese scientists at the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of ...

The world's second fastest supercomputer — it used to be the fastest, before its rival machine came online earlier this month — has created the most complex computer simulation of the universe to date ...

A projection through a 130 million light years thick slice through a simulation of a cubic volume of 9,132 million light years on a side. The luminosity of the background image gives the cold dark ...

One of the largest-ever computer models explores dark matter and dark energy, 2 cosmic constituents that remain a mystery LOS ALAMOS, NM, Oct. 26 — Understanding dark energy is the number one issue in ...