As a space reporter for The New York Times, I follow what’s happening in the stars, including eclipses, meteor showers and ...

Dark stars are not exactly stars, and they are certainly not dark.

In the leading model of cosmology, most of the universe is invisible: a combined 95% is made of dark matter and dark energy.

For centuries, Europeans thought that eternal daylight saturated the cosmos. The shift to a dark universe has had a profound ...

After a year-long renovation, the Michigan Science Center reopened its planetarium Friday, showcasing technology upgrades and ...

Industrialization in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula has some residents pushing for protection of the region’s celestial splendor. The night sky above Eagle Harbor, a village in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula ...

By studying faint distortions in galaxy shapes across a vast region of sky, scientists probed the hidden structure of the universe. In the standard picture of the universe, nearly everything is hidden ...

In 2013, a criminally underrated sci-fi/horror hybrid was released, and instead of launching a franchise, it received bafflingly negative reviews.

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Few things in the universe are as perplexing as dark matter — the invisible and exotic “stuff” that is thought to make up most of the matter in galaxies. The theory goes like this: To reconcile our ...

The Tesuque Pueblo’s Camel Rock may or may not have inspired the look of Steven Spielberg’s E.T. character, as the story goes. But the mushroom-shaped rock formation in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, ...