For over a decade, a dim but persistent glow near the center of the Milky Way has confused astronomers. This mysterious ...

The Universe still holds many mysteries, and among the most intriguing are these invisible components known as dark matter and dark energy. For decades, astronomers have estimated that ...

But a new study suggests that neither dark matter nor dark energy may actually exist. Instead, what scientists see as these mysterious forces could simply be an illusion, created by the slow weakening ...

The story begins with the black hole information paradox. According to relativity, anything that falls into a black hole is ...

Evolving dark matter may explain cosmic acceleration. Observations support a mixed model. For years, a stubborn puzzle has ...

Scientists may be coming closer to confirming the existence of dark matter - the invisible stuff thought to make up more than ...

An excess of gamma rays in the center of our galaxy could mean scientists have finally detected dark matter particles—or not ...

The dark object has a mass a million times greater than our sun's is located 10 billion light-years away and has no stars.

UChicago-led study analyzes massive galaxy clusters mapped by the Dark Energy Survey, offers new way to probe cosmic laws ...

Astrophysicists have presumed for nearly a century that the universe will just keep expanding for all eternity, driven by an ...

Astronomers have found new evidence that mysterious dark matter may be responsible for the unusual glow of high-energy gamma ...

Most explanations rely on "dark energy" to explain the Universe's accelerating expansion rate, but a new study takes a ...