Learn how through a process known as molecular hydrogen cooling, stars may be able to form in dark matter halos under 10 ...

A black hole is a region of space where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape. There are two main ...

First discovered in the 1990s, dark energy has come to feel like a familiar face of the cosmos. Astronomers first imagined this unseen entity as a constant presence that has, since the beginning, ...

If dark energy is weakening, it stands to reason that eventually gravity will become dominant and the universe will begin to ...

A project to map galaxies across the universe may have spied cracks in the foundation of our understanding of the cosmos.

“Therefore the universe expansion will stop accelerating and will go at a constant rate or even in some models could also stop and collapse ... and the nature of dark matter.

Not everything we knew about the universe is wrong. But not not everything. The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) ...

Dark matter is the catch-all term for about 27% ... causing the universe’s expansion to accelerate or driving an inward collapse, which would theoretically cause everything we know to collapse ...

Weak dark energy could strengthen matter, which eventually could be the force that causes the universe to collapse on itself, he says. "We thought before that the universe will keep just expanding ...