Dark matter doesn't absorb or give off light so scientists can't study it directly. But they can observe how its gravity ...

Dark energy is still one of the greatest cosmic mysteries. For all the time, money and telescopes that humanity has used to ...

Astronomers use the term dark energy to refer to energy in the universe that is unaccounted for by ordinary matter but ...

Dark energy remains one of the most stubborn puzzles in modern science. Despite decades of observation and increasingly ...

"These results from the Dark Energy Survey shine new light on our understanding of the universe and its expansion." ...

The most difficult thing about learning the dark energy is that the dark matter does not present itself directly; it only ...

Data from the James Webb Space Telescope was used to create the largest, highest resolution map of dark matter, just published in Nature Astronomy.

A new high-resolution map of distant galaxies may help scientists understand the mysterious dark matter holding the universe together ...

New supercomputer simulations hint that dark energy might be dynamic, not constant, subtly reshaping the Universe’s structure. The findings align with recent DESI observations, offering the strongest ...

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Physicists have unveiled a new way to simulate a mysterious form of dark matter that can collide with itself but not with ...

A new simulation tool lets scientists explore whether self-interacting dark matter could reshape galaxies from the inside out ...