When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Robert Lea (created with Canva) Our common understanding of the universe tells us that ...

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Dark matter, though invisible, weighs heavily on how we understand the universe. Its gravity sculpts galaxies, holds clusters together, and shapes cosmic evolution—yet we still don’t know what it is.

In the search to understand how the universe came to be, a new theory is rewriting the script. Instead of one massive, fiery birth like the Big Bang, this idea suggests the cosmos has been growing in ...

An international research collaboration has used advanced computer simulations to investigate how faint radio signals from ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Robert Lea created by Canva Observing the interactions between dark matter and so-called ...

Everybody enjoys a good mystery. And boy, right now there’s a doozie of a mystery in cosmology. Cosmology is the “big picture” of astronomy. Cosmology attempts to understand the creation on the ...

An international team of researchers has found that radio wave measurements from the moon could advance scientific understanding ...

Ferreira and Alexander Roskill from the University of Oxford's Department of Astrophysics have recently proposed a cold dark matter model that is based on very few parameters yet can accurately ...

Black holes are like sharks. Elegant, simple, scarier in the popular imagination than they deserve, and possibly lurking in deep, dark places all around us. Their very blackness makes it hard to ...

How is the total mass of the universe calculated? Bob GiddingsGreen Bay, Wisconsin Calculating the total mass of the universe ...