Is it possible that dark matter and dark energy don't exist?

Before the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), it was thought that the universe was slowing in its expansion and might someday fold back in on itself. In 1998, the HST revealed that rather than slowing, the rate of universal expansion is actually picking up. We still don't know why. read more

Well, Dark Energy is just a fancy name for "a big piece of the puzzle that we are missing". It is just a place marker for something we don't understand. Dark Matter is a little bit better established, but we don't know what it is. read more

Dark matter and dark energy—the mystery forces believed to govern the universe—may not exist after all. In a newly developed model, astronomer André Maeder has found that neither of these concepts is needed for the universe to be expanding at an accelerating rate. read more

To explain science’s observations of how galaxies move, there must be about five times as much dark matter as normal matter. It’s called dark because whatever it is, it cannot emit light. Scientists can only see its effects gravitationally on normal matter. read more