A batch of ghostly, chargeless particles have been caught coming from inside Earth and from deep space

Coming up soon, at time of writing, is the second edition of the bi-yearly phenomenon known as “Chicagohenge.” To make a long story short, Chicago’s layout sits on a due north/south/east/west sort of ...

An analysis finds that the Trump administration has cut or frozen up to $177 billion in federal grants since the president took office for his second term.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has found a new ultra-faint dwarf galaxy in our galactic backyard just by using preview data, taken before its 10-year survey!

We present the Exploration of Local VolumE Satellites of Dwarf Galaxies (ELVES-Dwarf) survey, a systematic census of satellite systems around dwarf hosts in the Local Volume. Our final sample comprise...

An analysis of new awards suggests that as of 26 August 2026, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has issued 57% fewer awards in the astronomical sciences in the current fiscal year compared to the ...

We explore the lowest mass limit that can be placed on the halo mass function in CDM using 28 strong gravitational lenses. For this purpose, we study an extreme model in which the halo mass function a...

Measuring the density profile and mass concentration of dark-matter haloes is a key test of the standard cold dark matter paradigm. Such objects are dark and thus challenging to characterise, but they...