the project is designed to provide the sensitivity required for high-stakes searches, including the elusive signatures of dark matter. The LST sub-array at CTAO-North at the “Roque de los Muchachos” Observatory on La Palma. (CREDIT: Beedron Record /...

cooling agent for gas—the intense radiation from early stars delayed the collapse of subsequent gas clouds. This allowed dark matter structures to grow larger and more stable, eventually enabling them to retain the iron ejected by these massive, ancient...

scientific community has largely been divided between two compelling interpretations: signals left behind by annihilating dark matter particles, or radiation generated by an undiscovered population of unresolved millisecond pulsars tucked away in the...

first galaxies. Scientists must account for a complex interplay of variables, including the gravitational influence of dark matter, the hydrodynamic behavior of ordinary gas, and the intense, transformative radiation emitted by the first luminous...

Unraveling the mysterious world of Chilopoda and Diplopoda! Discover the unique traits of centipedes and millipedes, the predatory hunters and gentle detritivores, respectively. Explore their evolutionary history and ecological roles. Chilopoda and...

Bacterial molecules found in the brain change with the sleep-wake cycle, suggesting microbes may influence how the body controls rest and recovery. You share your body with trillions of microbes, and scientists are increasingly asking how those...

Simulations reveal most stellar‑mass black holes in the Milky Way are likely isolated and undetectable with current methods. State‑of‑the‑art simulations indicate that more than nine‑tenths of the Milky Way’s stellar‑mass black holes travel alone,...

Athletes often look beyond training plans when they want to support energy, recovery and general wellbeing. Alongside balanced nutrition, hydration, sleep and appropriate training, some active people also consider traditional natural products. Shilajit...

Witnesses claimed it fell from the sky, but a startling alleged confession now threatens to unravel the mystery behind the unexplained event. In August 1841, a bizarre and unsettling event unfolded in a tobacco field near Lebanon, Tennessee. Two...

We usually dismiss bad dreams as harmless, but new research shows nightmares may signal early dementia risk, especially in men. In three population cohorts spanning midlife to late life, researchers linked weekly distressing dreams to roughly a...

A major 2025 review from the UK looks closely at how blood sugar and insulin affect the brain, explaining why diabetes and insulin resistance are linked to memory loss and dementia risk. Around the world, more people are living with type 2 diabetes and...

A bizarre image from orbit sparked alien jokes online, but the truth behind the purple “tentacles” reveals how astronauts are quietly learning to grow food far from Earth. The image spread quickly online. A purple object floated inside a spacecraft,...

“ultrafast” asteroids is a fitting start for an observatory named after Vera Rubin, the woman who proved the existence of Dark Matter. Just as she revealed that there was more to galaxies than meets the eye, the observatory bearing her name is revealing...

to aid exoplanet research. While the European Space Agency’s Euclid telescope was primarily built to chart the cosmos for dark matter and dark energy, a single‑night campaign turned its gaze toward the crowded heart of our own galaxy. The resulting map...

NASA’s Lucy probe is studying four Trojan asteroids now and gearing up for high‑speed flybys beginning in 2027. The Lucy probe has started capturing images of four distant Trojan asteroids from hundreds of millions of miles away, using these faint...

Newly found object 660 million years post‑Big Bang could explain the rapid growth of the universe’s earliest supermassive black holes. A team of astronomers has reported what may represent the earliest example of a “black‑hole star,” a compact system...

additional context on the tidal evolution and kinematics of these neighbor galaxies: Surviving the waves: evidence for a dark matter cusp in the tidally disrupting Small Magellanic Cloud (Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2024) UVIT...

Astronomers have discovered GJ 3090 b, an exoplanet orbiting its red dwarf star in the wrong direction, posing a mystery about its strange retrograde path. Astronomers have identified a planetary system that defies the conventional rules of stellar...

A massive collision that carved the Moon’s largest basin appears to have driven widespread volatile loss, leaving an isotopic fingerprint that still survives in lunar materials billions of years later. From Earth, the Moon appears calm and unchanging,...

AI sifts through 100k+ distant objects to spot rare quasar lens candidates A machine‑learning pipeline has sifted through the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) catalog and identified seven new quasars that may also serve as strong...