For a while now, there has been a problematic mystery at the heart of the standard cosmological model. Although all ...

The US Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera at NSF’s NOIRLab’s Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile has captured interstellar cloud Lupus 3. A pair of young stars can bee ...

Shocking’ results from a major astronomical study have raised doubts about the standard model of cosmology, forcing ...

Dark matter may have started as light-like particles that abruptly became heavy—a cosmic twist rooted in spin and ...

Recent findings from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument suggest the possibility of new physics that extends beyond the ...

Researchers propose a new theory for the origin of dark matter, the invisible substance thought to give the universe its ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The Circinus West molecular cloud is a vast star-forming region 2,500 light-years from Earth. The ...

In their study, the scientists examined both evolving dark energy and evolving dark matter. Their analysis showed that ...

Researchers in March said new data shows dark energy — a mysterious force that makes up nearly 70% of the universe — may actually be weakening. If dark energy is constant, an idea first ...

The dark nebula is part of the Circinus West molecular cloud, which stretches for 180 light-years, containing a mass 250,000 times that of the sun.