An international research collaboration has used advanced computer simulations to investigate how faint radio signals from ...

For all our telescopes and colliders, dark matter has remained an elusive ghost for the better part of a century. It ...

Dark energy —the term used to describe whatever is causing the universe to expand at an increasing rate—is one of the ...

When gravity—an invisible yet ubiquitous force—bends and distorts light from distant galaxies, Earthbound observers get a ...

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Scientists talk about dark matter an awful lot for something they don’t actually understand very well. They say that it’s important — and that we wouldn’t have stars and galaxies without it — though ...

Particle physics continues to probe the most fundamental constituents of matter while dark matter research seeks to illuminate the unseen mass that permeates our Universe. Recent efforts have ...

The use of atomic clocks could help bring cosmology and astrophysics "down to Earth" by allowing scientists to investigate the mysteries of dark energy and dark matter in the lab. When you purchase ...

Two recent studies by Professor Stefano Profumo at the University of California, Santa Cruz, propose theories that attempt to answer one of the most fundamental open questions in modern physics: What ...

The night sky of Aspen is a wonderland for stargazers, dark and transparent enough for the naked eye to discern ...