Dark matter, though invisible, weighs heavily on how we understand the universe. ... Dark matter first originated in a ‘Dark Big Bang’, study finds. Story by Joshua Shavit • 29m.

What we saw in the DESI experiments, and now strengthened by our South Pole Telescope observations, is that dark energy is ...

Inspired by superconductivity, a strange new theory that seeks to explain dark matter might explain dark energy, too ...

But axions were pushed aside as the WIMPs hypothesis gained more steam. Back-of-the-envelope calculations showed that the ...

Brian Schmidt explains dark energy’s role in accelerating universe expansion, 1998 discovery’s impact, and urges students to ...

As the Vera C. Rubin Observatory surveys the night sky, astrophysicists expect to unlock the secrets of dark matter, dark ...

The Big Bang is often described as the explosive birth of the Universe – a singular moment when space, time and matter sprang into existence.

Dark stars were first suggested in 2007, but now observations with the James Webb Space Telescope hint that we may have ...

Dark matter is one of the biggest mysteries in the universe. The invisible force making up for 95% of the universe might have been found in frozen light.

For decades, scientists have been searching for the universe's elusive "missing matter," and now they say they finally found it.

Astronomers have finally tracked down missing "ordinary" matter, which they discovered hiding as gas spread out in the vast ...

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 ...