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Detailed explanation-1: -It turns out that roughly 68% of the universe is dark energy. Dark matter makes up about 27%. The rest-everything on Earth, everything ever observed with all of our instruments, all normal matter-adds up to less than 5% of the universe.

Detailed explanation-2: -Like the jelly beans in this jar, the Universe is mostly dark: about 96 percent consists of dark energy (about 69%) and dark matter (about 26%). Only about 5 % (the same proportion as the lighter colored jelly beans) of the Universe-including the stars, planets and us-is made of familiar atomic matter.

Detailed explanation-3: -Dark matter, which we have so far only detected through its gravity-based effects in space, makes up about 85 percent of the total mass of the universe.

Detailed explanation-4: -Over 80% of all matter in the universe is made up of material scientists have never seen. It’s called dark matter and we only assume it exists because without it, the behaviour of stars, planets and galaxies simply wouldn’t make sense.