The only place that's likely to happen is at the very center of our galaxy. And, for a while, there was an excess of ...

Imagine a star powered not by nuclear fusion, but by one of the universe’s greatest mysteries—dark matter. Scientists have ...

Brown dwarfs, also known as "failed stars," could be corrupted by dark matter and transformed into "dark dwarfs" powered by ...

Dark matter pulls the universe and dark energy pushes, both mysteries that endure. And the discovery that a majority of the universe is made up of “stuff” that makes gravity push rather than pull was ...

In the wake of bombshell findings that suggest dark energy might be weakening as the universe expands, physicists are considering replacing the standard cosmological model of the universe with ...

If dark energy is weakening, as suggested by recent results, then the cosmos is far stranger than most physicists had supposed ...

A grand experiment pitted two rival theories of consciousness against each other. Critics have condemned one of the two theories as pseudoscience, and have questioned whether the new study can ...

The long and continuing quest to understand dark energy has entered exciting new territory. First discovered in the 1990s, dark energy has come to feel like a familiar face of the cosmos. Astronomers ...

New observations of the cosmos show that the dark energy, a mysterious force that accelerates the expansion of the universe, is evolving.

Dark energy may have a completely unknown aspect of physics acting as an accomplice in its efforts to defy gravity, suppressing the growth of large-scale structures like galaxy superclusters.