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 ...

For years, we’ve believed that the universe is a vast, uniform expanse, with the same properties stretching across the cosmos ...

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For a quarter century, cosmology has leaned on one framework to explain how the universe expands. Known as the ΛCDM model, it assumes about 70 percent of the cosmos is filled with an unseen force ...

You could swim through the deepest voids and encounter a single hydrogen atom in an entire football field's worth of space. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

We have not been able to detect dark matter yet, even though there are many aspects of the universe that suggest the existence of invisible matter. In one new theory, it is possible that dark matter ...

Scientists still don’t know what dark matter is. It doesn’t interact with any electromagnetic force or regular matter except through the gravitational force it exerts. A research team has a come up ...

[Hebrew University of Jerusalem]- Dark matter, the elusive substance that makes up about 85% of the universe's mass, remains one of the greatest mysteries in physics. Invisible and undetectable by ...

The Big Bang theory has dominated our understanding of the universe’s origin for almost 100 years. It describes a moment when all of space, time, and energy were born from a single infinitely dense ...

Cosmologists are finally beginning to sketch a coherent picture of the universe we cannot see, using exquisitely detailed ...