Learn how physicists recreated the early universe’s primordial soup, known as quark-gluon plasma, and discovered how it responds when particles race through it.

A tiny blob of red light spotted at the beginning of the Universe could represent the first direct evidence for a supermassive black hole formation pathway. In a dazzling new paper, a large ...

"As sensitive as we feared." Researchers make concerning discovery under enormous ice dome: 'Very direct evidence' first appeared on The Cool Down.

For nearly a century, scientists have been searching for direct evidence of dark matter—one of the key missing pieces of our theoretical understanding of the universe. While we have glimpsed the ...

Scientists have captured the first–ever direct evidence for dark matter, the elusive substance that makes up more than a quarter of the universe. Using NASA's Fermi telescope, researchers have ...