The Big Bang may not have been the origin of the universe's most mysterious matter. Instead, dark matter could have been created in a second creation event, a "Dark Big Bang." ...

Dark matter, the mysterious substance that makes up roughly 80 percent of all the matter in the universe, may have been forged before our cosmos was even born. Scientists have long theorized as to ...

In case dark matter didn't seem mysterious enough, a new study proposes that it could have arisen before the Big Bang. Conventional thinking goes that the Big Bang was the beginning of everything – ...

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 ...

Scientists have blown stargazers’ collective minds after discovering a massive dark object in space that’s completely ...

Japanese scientists simulated faint 21-centimeter radio waves from the Universe’s “Dark Ages,” offering a potential way to ...

The Simons Observatory is one of the most ambitious cosmic observatories on Earth, dedicated to studying the cosmic microwave ...

The new data seem to indicate that the cosmological constant is negative, and that the universe will end in a Big Crunch,” ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope may have found the universe’s first “dark stars.” Within the first few hundred million years after the Big Bang, the universe’s earliest stars took ...

"This gives us a new way to rule out certain black hole scenarios for dark matter." New research suggests that primordial black holes created during the Big Bang could have played a major role in ...

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 ...