A new study published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics proposes an alternative model which gives the universe an expiration date. According to this new model, everything will come ...

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

A team of astronomers have found a mysterious object in the distant universe that could be dark matter or an inactive smaller, or dwarf, galaxy.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has begun its decade-long survey to scan the entire night sky every three days. To do this, it ...

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

Astronomers have detected a mysterious dark object in the distant universe — and its size has them fascinated.

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 ...

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

The startup Reflect Orbital aims to keep solar farms running at night by reflecting sunlight from space and has sparked ...

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 ...

Harvard Prof. Christopher W. Stubbs presented on the unprecedented efforts of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory to map, track and ...

But a new study suggests that neither dark matter nor dark energy may actually exist. Instead, what scientists see as these ...