Scientists found where the universe’s missing matter went. Black holes have been pushing it far away from galaxies.

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

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

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

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 ...

Researchers at the University of Ottawa suggest that if the fundamental strengths of nature's forces, such as gravity, change ...

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

UC Berkeley emeritus professor John Clarke, UC Santa Barbara professor Michel H. Devoret and UC Santa Barbara professor John ...

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

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

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 ...

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