AP Science Writer Neuroscientist Liz Chrastil got the unique chance to see how her brain changed while she was pregnant and share what she learned in a new study that offers the first detailed map of ...

This discovery indicates that formaldehyde contributed to the formation of organic matter on ancient Mars, implying that bio-important molecules such as sugars and ribose (a component of RNA, which is ...

Although Mars is currently a cold, dry planet, geological evidence suggests that liquid water existed there around 3 to 4 ...

Watching for changes in Mars' orbit over time could be new way to detect passing dark matter, according to researchers.

(Image credit: NASA, ESA, J. Jee (University of California, Davis), J. Hughes (Rutgers University), F. Menanteau (Rutgers University and University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), C. Sifon (Leiden ...

Ask a child to draw water and, armed with crayons, they will make it blue. However, many adults would consider water to be ...

New simulations suggest that there are enough primordial black holes—potential dark matter candidates—in the universe for one ...

Physicists are still hot on the trail of a substance that could change everything: dark matter in the form of primordial ...

A new study by MIT physicists proposes that a mysterious force known as early dark energy could solve two of the biggest puzzles in cosmology and fill in some major gaps in our understanding of ...

In a new study, MIT physicists propose that if most of the dark matter in the universe is made up of microscopic primordial ...

(Courtesy: MIT/NASA) The decay of dark matter could have played a crucial role in triggering the formation of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in the early universe, according to a trio of astronomers ...