The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is set to detect millions of exploding vampire stellar remnants called "white dwarfs," shedding ...

Space-time may hide a bizarre new kind of black hole that causes Einstein’s theory of gravity to fail – and could solve the ...

New research suggests that dark energy isn't needed to explain the acceleration in the expansion of the universe — instead ...

Researchers hypothesize a fifth force of nature that could explain the intricate relationship between dark matter and dark ...

Could time itself actually explain our universe's expansion? Our current cosmological model—known as lambda cold dark matter, ...

New research using 3D galaxy maps and advanced algorithms reveals hidden information that could challenge our understanding ...

A new way to study 3D maps of galaxies in the cosmos without compressing the data is revealing new information about the dark universe.

Dark energy does not exist, some scientists have claimed – which could help get rid of one of the universe’s biggest mysteries.

Two theoretical physicists believe that string theory could provide a potential solution to one of cosmology’s greatest mysteries: the surprisingly small density of dark energy. Dark energy is the ...

A new study on exploding stars has provided the first evidence for an alternative model of the universe, known as Timescape.

"Up to this year, most observations were consistent, with dark energy being the cosmological constant. Nonetheless, 2024 was full of hints pointing out this might not be the case." 2024 was a big ...

Dark energy and dark matter refers to the unseen energy and matter components of the Universe. Dark matter is invisible, non-baryonic matter hypothesized to explain phenomena including ...