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

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 ...

Dark matter, the substance that makes up about 27% of the universe, could potentially be detected as a red or blue light ...

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

A new theory suggests dark matter and dark energy may be illusions, caused by the gradual weakening of nature’s fundamental ...

Most intriguingly, though, one of the objects showed a particular light absorption feature at the wavelength of 1,640 ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope may have found the universe’s first “dark stars.” Within the first few ...

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 ...

We know the Earth’s inner core is largely solid, which sets a ceiling on its temperature, and in turn, how much heat dark ...

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

Astronomers have detected one of the darkest objects ever seen at a record cosmic distance—only with the assistance of ...

The object was detected by observing how its gravity distorts light behind it. Astronomers have discovered an extremely faint ...