For decades, astronomers have believed that dark matter and dark energy make up most of the universe. However, a new study ...

A new study argues that dark matter and dark energy might be illusions caused by the universe’s forces fading over time. For many years, scientists have thought that dark matter and dark energy make ...

The discovery of what is potentially the smallest clump of dark matter ever seen strengthens the case for cold dark matter.

Astrophysicists have presumed for nearly a century that the universe will just keep expanding for all eternity, driven by an ...

Scientists have long embraced the fact that forces beyond sight govern the universe. Dark matter, they think, holds galaxies together with extra gravity, and dark energy drives the universe’s ...

According to the model, dark matter may have started as particles that were hot, light, massless, and fast. As the universe ...

Evolving dark matter may explain cosmic acceleration. Observations support a mixed model. For years, a stubborn puzzle has sat at the center of the standard cosmological model. The evidence clearly ...

The story begins with the black hole information paradox. According to relativity, anything that falls into a black hole is ...

A scientist from University of Ottawa has controversially claimed that dark matter does not exist in our universe and is ...

Black holes are eaters of all things, even radiation. A new study published in Physical Review Letters suggests that black ...

Since the early 20th century, scientists have gathered compelling evidence that the universe is expanding at an accelerating ...

Ask most astronomers, and they'll tell you that dark matter and dark energy make up more than 95 percent of the universe and that they are the explanations for many of the large-scale phenomena we ...