Dark energy may be the most mysterious substance ever proposed, but many scientists are certain it exists. Why?

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Advanced quantum detectors designed at Texas A&M University are reinventing the search for dark matter, an unseen force that ...

At Texas A&M University, experimental particle physicist Dr. Rupak Mahapatra spends his days chasing some of the faintest ...

Physicists have unveiled a new way to simulate a mysterious form of dark matter that can collide with itself but not with ...

In the search to understand how the universe came to be, a new theory is rewriting the script. Instead of one massive, fiery birth like the Big Bang, this idea suggests the cosmos has been growing in ...

"If these results are confirmed, it would mark a major paradigm shift in cosmology since the discovery of dark energy 27 years ago." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

New research puts forward compelling new evidence that dark matter interacts with cosmic "ghost particles" called neutrinos.

Scientists build ultra-sensitive detectors to study dark matter and dark energy, which make up most of the universe but remain unseen and poorly understood ...

Dark matter is a real pain in the neck. The term dark matter itself refers to a hypothetical substance that seems to solely interact with the rest of the universe via gravity and to serve as the ...

By combining different kinds of observations, cosmologists have shown that what we see is more easily explained if neutrinos, ...

A paper links dark stars to Webb telescope puzzles involving bright sources, dust-free galaxies, and early black holes.