When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Robert Lea (created with Canva) Our common understanding of the universe tells us that ...

Dark matter, the mysterious substance that makes up roughly 80 percent of all the matter in the universe, may have been forged before our cosmos was even born. Scientists have long theorized as to ...

Dark matter, which researchers believe make up about 80% of the universe’s mass, is one of the most elusive mysteries in modern physics. What exactly it is and how it came to be is a mystery, but a ...

Thanks to gravity, at least we're aware dark matter exists. We also know it's eerily abundant, accounting for about 85 percent of all matter in the Universe. Aside from that, though, we're pretty ...

Recent research unlocks new clues that could radically change the world's understanding of the origin of dark matter. Recent research by a student-faculty team at Colgate University unlocks new clues ...

Dark matter, though invisible, weighs heavily on how we understand the universe. Its gravity sculpts galaxies, holds clusters together, and shapes cosmic evolution—yet we still don’t know what it is.

Everybody enjoys a good mystery. And boy, right now there’s a doozie of a mystery in cosmology. Cosmology is the “big picture” of astronomy. Cosmology attempts to understand the creation on the ...

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 ...

Scientists may have "heard" the first tantalizing evidence of primordial black holes formed directly from overly dense ...

The Universe hides many mysteries, and dark matter represents one of the greatest enigmas that scientists are trying to ...

GENEVA, March 29 (Reuters) - Scientists at the CERN research centre will begin trying on Tuesday to make particles collide at ultra-high power and close to the speed of light to create mini-versions ...

Black holes are like sharks. Elegant, simple, scarier in the popular imagination than they deserve, and possibly lurking in deep, dark places all around us. Their very blackness makes it hard to ...