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

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

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

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

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

Astronomers puzzled out minuscule distortions in images of faraway galaxies taken by JWST in order to chart the invisible ...

Astronomers found evidence that dark matter and neutrinos may interact, hinting at a "fundamental breakthrough" that ...

The new research suggests an alternative origin. Dark matter could have instead been born extremely hot, opening up ...

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To explain these observations, they proposed a new kind of energy that is responsible for driving the universe’s accelerated expansion: dark energy. Astrophysicists now believe dark energy makes up ...

Researchers from China recently announced the creation of the largest quantum network in history to directly investigate the ...