If you share a bathroom with a roommate or a partner, there’s a good chance your toothbrush contains that person’s fecal matter, a new study suggests. Researchers at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has already begun to unravel the mysteries of the universe, offering new insights into ...

A few decades ago, astronomers realized they had a problem: They could not find enough matter in the universe to account for all the space in between stars and galaxies. The missing mass begged the ...

The researchers in a recent breakthrough have successfully modelled luminous black hole accretion, the process of matter ...

Dark matter is the elusive, invisible substance that appears to make up more than 80 percent of the total mass in the universe — far more than accounted for by the "regular" matter that makes up ...

Perhaps the biggest question in astronomy right now is one that sounds simple: What is the universe made of? We know about protons, neutrons, and electrons, and we know these particles combine to ...

When you look out at the Universe, all you see is matter and light. The stars, galaxies, plasmas, and unusual astrophysical objects all emit radiation from across the electromagnetic spectrum; the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the physics of nothing, everything, and the stuff in between. Gravity causes galaxies to rotate. Astronomers can study the ...

When we look out into the universe, we don't know what we're looking at for the most part. In fact, we can't even see most of what we're looking at – that's because the majority of the universe is ...

There are theories with a small "t" and theories with a capital "T." For the last two decades the concept that most stuff in the universe comes in an invisible form called Dark Matter has grown into ...

A study using white matter shows that the brain remains capable of learning complex tasks well into adulthood. Most people equate "gray matter" with the brain and its higher functions, such as ...