New hints from one of the most extensive surveys of the cosmos to date suggest that mysterious dark energy may be evolving in ways that could shift how astronomers understand the universe. Dark energy ...

Johns Hopkins researchers may have identified a compelling clue in the ongoing hunt to prove the existence of dark matter. A mysterious diffuse glow of gamma rays near the center of the Milky Way has ...

Dark matter, the mysterious substance that makes up roughly 80 percent of all the matter in the universe, may have been forged before our cosmos was even born. Scientists have long theorized as to ...

NASA’s latest discovery in the heart of our galaxy is raising more questions than answers. For the first time, a mysterious dark halo has been observed in the center of the Milky Way, a finding that ...

Dark matter, an unseen yet influential component of the cosmos, continues to challenge physicists nearly a century after its effects were first noticed. Its gravitational influence, vital for ...

"Dark matter remains one of the biggest mysteries in physics, and this work shows that we may have been overlooking its subtle chemical effects on the cosmos." When you purchase through links on our ...

A puzzling ultraviolet light seen across the Milky Way could come from the destruction of nuggets of dark matter, the mysterious stuff that makes up around a quarter of the matter and energy in the ...

Thanks to gravity, at least we're aware dark matter exists. We also know it's eerily abundant, accounting for about 85 percent of all matter in the Universe. Aside from that, though, we're pretty ...