Dark energy may be the most mysterious substance ever proposed, but many scientists are certain it exists. Why?

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Nearly everything in the universe is made of mysterious dark matter and dark energy, yet we can’t see either of them directly ...

"WIMPs are still the leading candidate for dark matter, but billions of dollars of experiments have been done, only getting ...

Advanced quantum detectors designed at Texas A&M University are reinventing the search for dark matter, an unseen force that ...

Scientists build ultra-sensitive detectors to study dark matter and dark energy, which make up most of the universe but remain unseen and poorly understood ...

For a generation, cosmologists have treated dark energy as a fixed backdrop, a steady pressure stretching space faster and ...

Scientists are uncovering dark matter, the biggest secret in the universe, with new detectors built to sense what was once ...

An artist’s concept of the dark energy-driven accelerating expansion of the universe. New results suggest dark energy’s influence on cosmic expansion has weakened over time. In 2024 a shockwave ...

New research puts forward compelling new evidence that dark matter interacts with cosmic "ghost particles" called neutrinos.

Contrary to popular belief, our universe may not be constantly expanding after all. A groundbreaking study by South Korean ...

Dark matter is a real pain in the neck. The term dark matter itself refers to a hypothetical substance that seems to solely interact with the rest of the universe via gravity and to serve as the ...