Could time itself actually explain our universe's expansion? Our current cosmological model—known as lambda cold dark matter, ...

The rest of the universe appears to be made of a mysterious, invisible substance called dark matter (25 percent) and a force that repels gravity known as dark energy (70 percent). Scientists have ...

Detecting dark matter, the elusive type of matter predicted to account for most of the universe's mass, has so far proved to ...

The growing distances between them hinted at forces far beyond what we can see—dark ... data, as well as internal and external sources, must be melded to derive meaningful insights. Semantic ...

"It marks an exciting step forward in our understanding of dark matter and the dynamics of the Milky Way." A perplexing "break" in a stream of stars around the Milky Way could be the result of ...

The nature of dark matter is largely unknown, but it is thought to have mass, which influences particle interactions in the universe through gravity. Dark matter may not interact much with visible ...

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 ...

However, hints remain from earlier DES data and other experiments that matter in the Universe today is a few percent less clumpy than predicted. In 29 new scientific papers, the Dark Energy Survey ...

Yet despite researchers’ best efforts over decades to work out the nature of this “dark matter” – to find some clue direct or indirect as to what it’s made of, or even make it in the lab ...