Two recent studies speculate a natural emergence of the mysterious substance, offering ‘self-contained and calculable ...

Neutrinos are fundamental particles characterized by no electric charge and very small masses, which are known to interact ...

Dark energy makes up about 70% of the universe and causes its expansion to accelerate. It's different from dark matter; dark energy pushes space apart, while dark matter pulls things together. We ...

Is it possible that the universe’s most mysterious substance could finally leave a visible trace?” For decades, this question ...

"Dark matter could be captured by stars and accumulate inside them. If that happens, it might also interact with itself and ...

Using the largest catalog of exploding white dwarf vampire stars ever gathered has provided further evidence that dark energy ...

This particular isotope burns away quickly inside stars due to their intense heat. But in cooler objects like brown dwarfs, ...

Of this enormous slice of the universe's matter and energy budget, dark energy — the placeholder name for the force causing the expansion of the universe to accelerate — accounts for around 70 ...

It took about 50 exploding stars to upend cosmology. Researchers mapped and measured light from Type Ia supernovae, the ...

More than a decade in the making, the Vera Rubin Observatory finally released its first image as its begins its groundbreaking 10-year astronomy mission.

Lieu’s model explains more than just how matter forms. It also tackles why the universe keeps expanding at an accelerating pace — a phenomenon usually blamed on dark energy.

This dark matter makes up about 27 percen t of the universe's total mass-energy content, 68 percent of which is made up of dark energy, with only 5 percent being "normal" matter, according to NASA.