Astronomers have long puzzled over the cause of a mysterious “glow” of very high energy gamma radiation emanating from the ...

The Universe hides many mysteries, and dark matter represents one of the greatest enigmas that scientists are trying to ...

A new study casts doubt on the universe’s accelerating expansion, suggesting dark energy might be weakening over time.

In a groundbreaking cosmic test, researchers have discovered that dark matter behaves more conventionally than previously ...

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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 ...

A breakthrough in manipulating dark excitons could pave the way for next-generation quantum communication systems and ultra-compact photonic devices. A research group from the City University of New Y ...

An experiment designed to hunt for ever elusive dark matter has returned some strange and exciting signals. The anomalies are probably not dark matter itself, but could be an indication that we’re on ...

The universe is expanding, and that expansion is accelerating. But what is causing that to happen? The leading hypothesis is a repellent force that astrophysicists refer to as “dark energy,” which ...

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 ...