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

To check these predictions, the DES had to combine all four of the methods of investigating dark energy: study of signals ...

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

A cosmological simulation study by researchers from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has systematically revealed, for the first time, how the interaction ...

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

At Texas A&M University, experimental particle physicist Dr. Rupak Mahapatra spends his days chasing some of the faintest signals in the universe. His lab designs cryogenic semiconductor detectors ...

Dark stars powered by dark matter may explain bright galaxies, massive black holes, and mysterious red objects in the early universe.

Nearly a century after astronomers first proposed dark matter to explain the strange motions of galaxies, scientists may finally be catching a glimpse of it. A University of Tokyo researcher analyzing ...

For nearly a century, dark matter has existed as a powerful idea rather than a directly observed substance, inferred from the way galaxies spin and clusters bend light but never actually seen. Now a ...

"WIMPs are still the leading candidate for dark matter, but billions of dollars of experiments have been done, only getting stronger and stronger upper limits, so alternative scenarios have to be ...

A team of astronomers say they may have detected dark matter, the invisible substance thought to make up over 85 percent of all matter in the universe, for the first time in history. The claim is ...