When discussing the scale of the universe, we’re immediately faced with an intriguing question: are we tiny beings, or is the ...

Since conventional explanations have failed to pony up dark matter, one physicist is looking towards the unconventional. In a series of two papers, physicist Stefano Profumo of the University of ...

The Universe still holds many mysteries, and among the most intriguing are these invisible components known as dark matter and dark energy. For decades, astronomers have estimated that ...

Cosmologists can now explore data faster than ever before with a new emulator. As astronomers continue to uncover the ...

But a new study suggests that neither dark matter nor dark energy may actually exist. Instead, what scientists see as these mysterious forces could simply be an illusion, created by the slow weakening ...

"There are more questions than answers at this point." Dark energy could have an accomplice that helps it slow the growth of large cosmic structures, such as vast superclusters made up of clusters of ...

The universe is truly magical: vast, mysterious, and endlessly fascinating. There’s something almost unreal about being able ...

The early universe was already warm before reionization, revealing that the first stars did not flicker on in an icy cosmos.