The world is full of incredible destinations to explore, but there are certain places that are best avoided due to danger, political instability, or environmental hazards. In this video, we uncover ...

Space-based observatories such as the Hubble Space Telescope have observed vortex-like storms — which appear as dark spots — swirling in the blue planet’s atmosphere before, but it’s the ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Physicists have deduced subtle hints that the mysterious “dark” energy that drives the universe to expand faster and faster may ...

New hints from one of the most extensive surveys of the cosmos to date suggest that mysterious dark energy may be evolving in ways that could shift how astronomers understand the universe.

"About 80 percent is made of dark matter, whose mysterious nature is not yet known but may consist of some as-yet-undiscovered subatomic particles." Stock illustration of dark matter in a beaker.

The mysterious force pushing the universe outward faster and faster was named dark energy. Cosmologist Brian Nord joins host Regina G. Barber in a conversation that talks about what dark energy ...

The rest of the universe appears to be made of a mysterious, invisible substance called dark matter (25 percent) and a force that repels gravity known as dark energy (70 percent). Scientists have ...

You can get in touch with Jess by emailing j.thomson@newsweek.com. Dark matter, the mysterious substance that makes up roughly 80 percent of all the matter in the universe, may have been forged ...

From 1999 to 2004, the cosmological community came together to agree that the universe was 5% normal (baryonic) matter, 25% dark matter (unknown, invisible matter), and 70% "dark energy" (an ...