According to our best possible understanding of the universe, regular matter is only a small fraction of the matter-energy ...

Of this enormous slice of the universe's matter and energy budget, dark energy — the placeholder name for the force causing the expansion of the universe to accelerate — accounts for around 70 ...

Dark energy and dark matter refers to the unseen energy and matter components of the Universe. Dark matter is invisible, non-baryonic matter hypothesized to explain phenomena including ...

Brian Schmidt explains dark energy’s role in accelerating universe expansion, 1998 discovery’s impact, and urges students to ...

As the Vera C. Rubin Observatory surveys the night sky, astrophysicists expect to unlock the secrets of dark matter, dark ...

While there have been several models proposing an evolving dark energy, the idea of evolving dark matter hasn't been widely considered. The reason for this is twofold.

The 10-year survey is the primary mission of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, located on a mountaintop at the edge of Chile’s ...

Dark matter is a real pain in the neck. The term dark matter itself refers to a hypothetical substance that seems to solely ...

We may already have had our first-ever encounter with dark matter, according to researchers who say a mysteriously ...

Decades ago, astronomers estimated that “ordinary” matter (basically everything that isn’t dark matter or dark energy) makes ...

Of this enormous slice of the universe's matter and energy budget, dark energy — the placeholder name for the force causing the expansion of the universe to accelerate — accounts for around 70 ...