Scientists prefer to call the backside of the moon its “far” side. By Andrea Kannapell “The dark side of the moon”: The term has a poetic ring. It has long been mined in popular culture, not least by ...

The left is creating new, obscure nonprofits to funnel hundreds of millions of dollars into politics and advocacy. By Theodore Schleifer Theodore Schleifer has written about billionaires’ political ...

Dark matter is some kind of substance that has gravity—it holds galaxies together—yet cannot be directly seen with any instrument yet created. We know it’s out there because of the effects it has on ...

The first time I heard about galaxies without dark matter, I was sitting in my very first graduate class at the University of São Paulo. It was 2018, and the discovery had just been announced. A team ...

Data breaches have become a fact of our digital world. Verizon’s 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report recorded over 12,000 breaches in that year alone. That’s nearly three dozen a day. And it gets ...

While Struwwelpeter features 10 rhyming poems containing cautionary tales and moral lessons meant for children, the series will depict a “cruel reality,” according to Variety. This dramatic adaptation ...

Astronomers have spotted a galaxy so faint, it’s almost invisible — a discovery that could help illuminate one of the most elusive substances in the universe. The researchers found Candidate Dark ...

Ross Johnson writes about television, film, and literature for Lifehacker. He has a degree in political science from the University of Rochester and has previously been a legal writer and editor for ...

Astronomers have just identified what appears to be a cosmic anomaly: a faint galaxy with so few visible stars that, according to calculations, as much as 99.9 percent of its mass is dark matter. The ...

Dark energy is one of those cosmological features that we are still learning about. While we can't see it directly, we can most famously observe its effects on the universe—primarily how it is causing ...

You might not give much thought to the setting of your daily shower, but some experts say you might want to, particularly the lighting if you want a good night’s sleep. Lighting has a strong impact on ...