Using gold flakes, salt water, and light, scientists have made the universe’s invisible binding forces visible in color. The discovery opens new possibilities for studying how matter organizes itself ...

Dark energy, the mysterious force that makes up 70 percent of everything in existence, was hypothesized to explain why the expansion of the universe was accelerating. Ever since, it's been thought of ...

The shape of the cosmos depends on a balance of two competing forces: the pull of gravity and the expansion driven by dark ...

We’ve been told by science that the universe is expanding relentlessly, driven by a mysterious force called dark energy. Eventually, galaxies would drift so far apart that the night sky would go black ...

Researchers at ETH Zurich (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich), along with teams from Germany and Australia, have made some incredibly precise measurements using calcium atoms—and the results ...

A closer look at the Lambda Cold Dark Matter model, its core components, supporting evidence, and why new observations are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The movements of galaxies could reveal the physics behind dark matter. (Credit: NASA) A new study in the journal Nature examines ...

How can the universe’s turbulence influence the Earth? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to address as a team of scientists compared a phenomenon throughout the universe ...

A new study in the journal Nature examines the distribution of dark matter in the universe, attempting to figure out if it obeys the same laws as regular matter. What it found suggests that dark ...