The big bang wasn’t the start of everything, but it has been impossible to see what came before. Now a new kind of cosmology is lifting the veil on the beginning of time ...

Researchers used the Atacama Cosmology Telescope to create this new map of the dark matter. The orange regions show where there is more mass; purple where there is less or none. The typical features ...

Scientists have created a new map of the dark matter in the universe. Using radiation left over from the Big Bang, researchers mapped the gravitational effects of the mysterious substance. The map ...

It’s unclear whether science as a discipline—and scientists as people—will ever be able to answer some questions definitively ...