A mysterious excess of far-ultraviolet light seen across the Milky Way could come from the annihilation of clumpy dark matter ...

In the leading model of cosmology, most of the universe is invisible: a combined 95% is made of dark matter and dark energy.

By studying faint distortions in galaxy shapes across a vast region of sky, scientists probed the hidden structure of the universe. In the standard picture of the universe, nearly everything is hidden ...

We may now have the sharpest-ever measurements of the dark side of our universe. Here's what that means for science. Monisha Ravisetti was a science writer at CNET. She covered climate change, space ...

In a new study published in The Open Journal of Astrophysics, scientists have unveiled a new mapping of the universe’s ...

Only 31 percent of the universe is made up of matter, scientists have discovered, with the rest being made up of dark energy. Previous models and observations of the universe have estimated that the ...

Normal matter – which makes up everything we see and touch – isn’t the only type of matter present in the universe.

The blank horizontal bar is the galactic plane area, which was excluded from the analysis to avoid strong astrophysical ...

Dark matter and dark energy are the focus of this cutting edge space telescope. Here's our primer on this historic mission. Reading time 4 minutes Together, dark matter and dark energy comprise 95% of ...

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 ...

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