Dark matter is more than five times as abundant as all the visible matter in the universe. So why can't we see any of it?

Featuring the world’s largest digital camera, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will capture these mysterious phenomena in more ...

These two properties of axions mean that they are exceptionally good at collapsing down to incredibly high densities, pulled ...

The true nature of dark matter is still one of the greatest mysteries in contemporary physics, even though scientists have ...

Observations from the James Webb Space Telescope reveal monster black holes in the early universe that seem to have grown too ...

Dark Energy 'Doesn't Exist' So Can't Be Pushing 'Lumpy' Universe Apart Dec. 20, 2024 — One of the biggest mysteries in science -- dark energy -- doesn't actually exist, according to researchers ...

An international team of researchers has found dark matter dominating the halos of two supermassive black holes in galaxies roughly 13 billion light years away. Their study, published in The ...

A final, and controversial, suggestion is that dark matter doesn’t exist at all, and we’ve simply got our theories of gravity all wrong. But Einstein’s general theory of relativity ...

Euclid blasted off on its six-year mission to explore the dark universe on 1 July 2023. Before the spacecraft could begin its ...

Observing the interactions between dark matter and so-called "dark photons" during a period after the Big Bang called the "cosmic dawn" could help shed light on the universe's most mysterious and ...