According to the most popular theories, the growth is being fueled by dark energy and dark matter, which (if correct) make up the majority of the universe itself.  It was believed that dark energy was ...

New Technique to Detect Dark Matter Using Atomic Clocks and Lasers ... method gleans more information than its predecessors from maps showing how galaxies are clustered and threaded throughout ...

Galactic megacollision: A visible-light and X-ray composite image of the Bullet cluster 1E 0657-556, which formed after the ...

If dark energy is weakening, as suggested by recent results, then the cosmos is far stranger than most physicists had ...

Astronomers may have found the long-missing half of the universe's regular matter—and it appears to have been right under our noses all this time. Models of how the universe has evolved since the Big ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An illustration shows a multitude of singulaties spitting matter in the universe around Earth.

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is gearing up to unlock the deepest secrets of the universe with three ...

The telescope can map out the location of otherwise-invisible dark matter by looking for signs of gravitational lensing—the phenomenon where the gravity from massive objects distorts the light ...

Our neighboring Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31, or M31) appears to sport a lopsided arrangement of satellite galaxies that defy ...

Astronomers have stumbled upon yet another ghostly galaxy that appears to be devoid of dark matter. First spotted in 2024, FCC 224 is a dwarf galaxy that boasts a dozen luminous, tightly bound ...

We can't see dark matter, but scientists have made the largest map yet of the invisible material that helps make up the universe. Researchers used a dark energy camera and a large telescope to ...

dark energy and dark matter, collectively referred to as the dark universe. Here's the idea. The new concept replaces the dark universe with a multitude of step-like bursts called "transient ...