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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

In the search to understand how the universe came to be, a new theory is rewriting the script. Instead of one massive, fiery birth like the Big Bang, this idea suggests the cosmos has been growing in ...

An analysis has produced the most precise summation to date of the universe’s dark energy and dark matter contents. Reading time 3 minutes A new analysis of more than 1,500 supernovae has put fresh ...

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

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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 ...