Inspired by superconductivity, a strange new theory that seeks to explain dark matter might explain dark energy, too ...

Dark matter, although not visible, is believed to make up most of the total mass of the universe. One theory suggests that ...

Everything in space—from Earth and the sun to black holes—accounts for just 15% of all matter in the universe. The rest of ...

But axions were pushed aside as the WIMPs hypothesis gained more steam. Back-of-the-envelope calculations showed that the ...

A new hypothesis called the “quantum memory matrix” could solve long-standing physics questions, including the Black Hole ...

Powered by the largest digital camera ever built, Rubin Observatory has taken its first images—millions of stars and galaxies ...

Astronomers have finally tracked down missing "ordinary" matter, which they discovered hiding as gas spread out in the vast ...

For decades, scientists have been searching for the universe's elusive "missing matter," and now they say they finally found ...

Despite decades of searching, scientists still haven’t found the elusive substance that holds galaxies together: dark matter.

The largest digital camera ever built has released its first shots of the universe. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, located on ...

The universe has two kinds of matter. There is invisible dark matter, known only because of its gravitational effects on a ...

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